straggle

verb intransitive

[This word seems to be formed on the root of stray. G., to pass, to migrate.]

stragl.

To wander from the direct course or way; to rove. When troops are on the march, let not the men straggle.

To wander at large without an certain direction or object; to ramble. The wolf spied a straggling kid.

To exuberate; to shoot too far in growth. Prune the straggling branches of the hedge.

To be dispersed; to be apart from any main body. They came between Scylla and Charybdis and the straggling rocks.