noun One who straggles or strays away, as from his fellows or from the direct or proper course; one who lags behind or becomes separated in any way from his companions, as from a body of troops on the march.
noun Specifically, in ornithology, a stray, or strayed bird, out of its usual range, or off its regular migration.
noun One who roams or wanders about at random, or without settled direction or object; a wanderer; a vagabond; especially, a wandering, shiftless fellow; a tramp.
noun Something that shoots beyond the rest or too far; an exuberant growth.
noun Something that stands apart from others; a solitary or isolated individual.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun One who straggles, or departs from the direct or proper course, or from the company to which he belongs; one who falls behind the rest; one who rambles without any settled direction.
noun A roving vagabond.
noun Something that shoots, or spreads out, beyond the rest, or too far; an exuberant growth.
noun Something that stands alone or by itself.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun One who straggles, or departs from the direct or proper course, or from the company to which he belongs.
noun One who falls behind the rest.
noun One who rambles without any settled direction.
noun A roving vagabond.
noun Something that shoots, or spreads out, beyond the rest, or too far; an exuberant growth.
noun Something that stands alone or by itself.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun someone who strays or falls behind
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No enemy fighters sighted - thank God - because a straggler is a dead duck.
At this rate, it has been calculated that our passenger-pigeon might go to Europe in three days; indeed, a straggler is said to have been actually shot in Scotland.
Edwin, who with Grimsby had volunteered the dangerous service of reconnoitring the enemy, returned within an hour, bringing in a straggler from the English camp.
Edwin, who, with Grimsby, had volunteered the dangerous service of reconnoitering the enemy, returned within an hour, bringing in a straggler from the English camp.
Having already satisfied myself as to the several modes in which the four others attained felicity, I next set my mind at work to discover what enjoyments were peculiar to the old "straggler," as the people of the country would have termed the wandering mendicant and prophet.
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