Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - straggle
Straggle
straggle
v. & n. --v.intr. 1 lack or lose compactness or tidiness. 2 be or become dispersed or sporadic. 3 trail behind others in a march or race etc. 4 (of a plant, beard, etc.) grow long and loose. --n. a body or group of straggling or scattered persons or things. Derivatives straggler n. straggly adj. (stragglier, straggliest). Etymology: ME, perh. rel. to dial. strake go, rel. to STRETCH
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I. intransitive verb (~d; straggling) Etymology: Middle English straglen Date: 15th century to wander from the direct course or way ; rove, stray, to trail off from others of its kind , ~r noun II. noun Date: 1865 a straggling group (as of persons or objects) ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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