stragglern.

Brit.

/ˈstraɡl̩ə/,

/ˈstraɡlə/, U.S.

/ˈstræɡ(ə)lər/

Forms: Also 1500s–1700s stragler, 1500s strag(g)eler, strageller, 1600s Scottish straggillar.

Etymology: < straggle v.¹ + -er suffix¹.

One who, or a thing which, straggles.

1. One who wanders or roves without fixed direction; one who strays from his companions or from the regular route; †a gadabout; †a camp-follower, a tramp, vagabond.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > [noun] > straying or going astray > one who

strayer1519

straggler1530

stray1557

strayling1838

society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > wanderer

striker1393

roamerc1400

wandererc1440

whirlerc1440

gangrela1450

fluttererc1450

straggler1530

gadlinga1542

ranger1560

rover1568

fugitive1570

rangler1575

fleeter1581

extravagant1583

scatterling1590

vagranta1592

rambler1624

erratic1669

stravaiger1821

multivagant1895

society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp

harlot?c1225

raikera1400

vacabond1404

vagrant1444

gangrela1450

briber?c1475

palliard1484

vagabondc1485

rogue1489

wavenger1493

hermit1495

gaberlunzie1508

knight of the field1508

loiterer1530

straggler1530

runagate1534

ruffler1535

hedge-creeper1548

Abraham man1567

cursitor1567

runner1567

walker1567

tinker1575

traveller1598

Tartar1602

stravagant1606

wagand1614

Circumcellion1623

meechera1625

hedge-bird1631

gaberlunzie man1649

tramp1664

stroller1681

jockey1685

bird of passage1717

randy1724

tramper1760

stalko1804

vagabondager1813

rintherout1814

piker1838

pikey1838

beachcomber1840

roadster1851

vagabondizer1860

roustabout1862

bum1864

migratory1866

potter1867

sundowner1868

vag1868

walkabout1872

transient1877

Murrumbidgee whaler1878

rouster1882

run-the-hedge1882

whaler1883

shaughraun1884

heather-cat1886

hobo1889

tussocker1889

gay cat1893

overlander1898

stake-man1899

stiff1899

bindle-stiff1900

dingbat1902

stew-bum1902

tired Tim (also Timothy)1906

skipper1925

Strandlooper1927

knight of the road1928

hobohemian1936

plain turkey1955

scrub turkey1955

derro1963

jakey1988

crusty1990

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 277/1 Straglers after an army, bidaulx, truandaille.

1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 486/2 Desertor,..a straggeler, or forsaker of his fellowes.

1592 R. Greene Disput. Conny-catcher sig. D3 A Maid shoulde not be a stragler, but like the Snayle, carry her house on her heade.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III v. vi. 57 Lets whip these stragglers ore the seas againe.

1616 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Scornful Ladie i. sig. B4^v Wel... Is your Ladie at home? Abi. She is no stragler Sir.

1617 J. Boys Expos. Proper Psalmes: 2nd Pt. 33 Euen so the Church of God wandereth as a straggler and as a stranger in the wildernesse of this world.

1745 J. Swift Direct. to Servants 35 Bottles missing are supposed to be half stolen by Stragglers and other Servants.

1773 J. Berridge Christian World Unmasked 118 Satan may as well bar up his gates: he will not catch a single straggler.

1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham II. xxvii. 302 I rode over the ground, in the hope of finding some solitary straggler of our party.

1883 M. B. Betham-Edwards Disarmed xli In an incredibly short space of time the vast pleasure-grounds were cleared of the last straggler.

figurative and in extended use.a1592 R. Greene Mamillia (1593) ii. sig. H 3 Æneas a verie stragler, yet Dido neuer founde halting.1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xvii. 285 But Homesdale raised Hills, to keep the straggler [a river] in.1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson Introd. sig. c4^v The Manila ships are the only ones which have ever traversed this vast ocean, except a French straggler or two.

a. Military. A soldier who leaves the line of march or falls out of the ranks. †Also, a scout or skirmisher.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by position > [noun] > straggler

straggler1589

society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier with special duty > [noun] > skirmisher

courier1523

skirmisher1565

straggler1589

bickerer1611

tirailleur1796

voltigeur1805

Bashi-Bazouk1855

1589 W. Warner Albions Eng. (new ed.) v. xxiiii. 105 Vntill a desperate Stragler with an arrowe pierst his head.

1603 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Hist. Descr. Worlde 160 He had lost his cariages with some fewe straglers that had martched disorderly.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 81 Our straglers that went out retired to the firm ground.

1644 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. i. 53 He..tuik fourtie men and many horses and slew many of thair straggillars.

1707 London Gaz. No. 4337/2 Col. Hill..assembled the Stragglers of the English Regiments into a Body.

1813 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) 19 July X. 545 There are many stragglers still out.

1878 R. B. Smith Carthage x. 205 He now rested for a time to recruit his troops, and to allow stragglers to rejoin him.

figurative.1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 195 This maner of speech is termed the figure of digression by the Latines,..we also call him the straggler by allusion to the souldier that marches out of his array.1635 A. Gil Sacred Philos. Holy Script. Pref. sig. *2^v Although it be not lawfull for mee to handle either sword or speare; yet because I wish well to these holy wars, I have as a stragler brought my baskets of stones.1850 J. S. Blackie in tr. Æschylus Lyrical Dramas II. 308 These Australians and Africans may be mere imbecile stragglers who have been dropt from the great army of humanity in its march.1879 R. A. Proctor Pleasant Ways Sci. v. 119 The two meteors..may have been stragglers from the main body.

b. Nautical. A sailor who is absent from his ship without leave or who overstays his leave.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > one who goes ashore > sailor allowed to go ashore > who overstays his leave

straggler1670

1670 J. Covel Diary in J. T. Bent Early Voy. Levant (1893) 134 We saw some of the Straglers posting down in wonderful haste.

1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. ii. i. 15 The Captain was not among them; and they were afraid to tell the Spaniards so, for fear of being all hanged for Straglers.

1815 W. Burney Falconer's New Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) Stragglers, are seamen who desert and abscond from his Majesty's ships.

1887 Queen's Regul. Nav. Service §728. 289 The Constable, or other person bringing Deserters or Stragglers on board.

1891 Daily News 22 Jan. 7/3 Sidney Stevens,..dressed in the uniform of a sailor, was charged before Mr. John Dickinson with being a ‘straggler.’

†3. A merchant who intrudes into a market without licence to trade there; an interloper. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > trader > [noun] > petty or sordid > intrusive or unlicensed trader

interloperc1590

straggler1598

intermeddler1601

1598 R. Hakluyt tr. in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 500 To purge your Countrey of such straglers of our subiects, as..are not of the Company of our merchants.

1601 J. Wheeler Treat. Commerce 55 (margin) The pedlarlike dealing of the English straglers at the Narue.

4. An animal that strays from its habitat or companions; esp. a migratory bird found at a place outside its usual range; spec. in Australia and New Zealand, a stray unbranded animal or one that falls behind or is overlooked in a round-up. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > by habits or actions > [noun] > that strays from habitat or companions

straif1377

astray1440

stragglera1552

strayaway1820

breakaway1893

ladino1942

the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [noun] > migration > migratory bird > straggler

stragglera1552

the world > animals > domestic animal > [noun] > livestock > member of livestock > that strayed from flock

strayc1440

straggler1848

stranger1852

tailer1893

a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1710) I. 62 There resorte many redde Dere stragelers to the Mountaines of Weredale.

1594 R. Barnfield Affectionate Shepheard sig. Fi^v If any [sheep] prove a Strageller From his owne fellowes in a forraine field.

1647 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Worse Times iii. ix. 118 Those Straglers [sc. deer]..being out of the Protection, because out of the Pale of the Parke.

1761 Ann. Reg. 1760 127/1 The magistrates..have ordered all dogs to be muzzled..and all stragglers to be destroyed.

1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. (1835) III. 72 These animals of more southern seas can be considered only as stragglers attracted to our shores..by an abundant supply of food.

1848 H. W. Haygarth Recoll. Bush Life Austral. vi. 56 Innumerable animals of every kind of brand, and others with no brand at all, and known as ‘stragglers’, are mixed with the herds in the interior.

1852 W. Macgillivray Hist. Brit. Birds IV. 398 Very few [species] are permanently resident in Britain; but, with stragglers, we make up a pretty considerable list.

1860 G. Duppa in S. S. Crawford Sheep & Sheepmen Canterbury (1949) v. 46 Complete dipping flock..deliver stragglers.

1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer xviii The stragglers or strayed cattle.

1899 W. T. Greene Cage-birds 40 The Blue-headed Wagtail..is rather an accidental straggler to our shores than a resident species.

1928 ‘Brent of Bin Bin’ Up Country xvii. 296 Then I'm going to have a good fling and settle down with a straggler if I can't get the bell ewe.

1933 L. G. D. Acland in Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) 16 Dec. 21/8 Straggler, sheep that has been left on the country at a muster. It is usual to go over the country again to pick them up.

1953 O. E. Middleton in C. K. Stead N.Z. Short Stories (1966) 2nd Ser. 186 Shepherding the stragglers would be Charlie's strong-eyes, Beau and Belle.

1972 P. Newton Sheep Thief 188 Sheep that have been missed in a main muster are ‘stragglers’. To get them in may necessitate a special muster.

5. A plant, branch, etc., that grows irregularly or shoots too far; also, a plant, fruit, etc., found growing singly or apart from others of its kind. Similarly, a stray lock of hair. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > by habitat or distribution > [noun] > proximity to one another > that grows singly or apart from others

straggler1553

runabout1882

the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by poor growth > [noun] > weakly plant

straggler1553

underling1688

spindling1851

the world > life > the body > hair > hair of head > lock or locks > [noun]

lockeOE

forelockc1000

hair-lockc1000

earlockOE

foretopc1290

tressc1290

lachterc1375

fuke1483

sidelock1530

proudfallc1540

widow's locka1543

folding1552

fore-bush1591

flake1592

witch knot1598

tuft1603

French lock1614

head-lock1642

witch-lock1682

rat's tail1706

side-curl1749

scalp knot1805

rat-tail1823

straggler1825

scalping-tuft1826

scalp-lock1827

aggravator1835

soap-lock1840

payess1845

stringleta1852

list1859

tresslet1882

drake's tail1938

1553 R. Ascham Let. 24 Mar. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Lit. Men (1843) 14 And I in a manner alone of that tyme left a standing straggler, peradventur, though my frute be very smaul, yet,..I may yet be thought somwhat fitt for seede.

1630 Bp. J. Hall Occas. Medit. §liii There you see a cluster, whose grapes touch one another, well ripened; here you see some straglers, which grow almost solitarily, greene and hard.

1712 A. Pope tr. Ovid Fable Vertumnus & Pomona in Misc. Poems 131 Sometimes his Pruning-hook corrects the Vines, And the loose Straglers to their Ranks confines.

1825 C. Lamb Wedding in Elia 2nd Ser. My friend the Admiral..did not at once shove up his borrowed locks..to betray the few grey stragglers of his own beneath them.

1840 Mental Culture 27 Field and hedgerow stragglers, exposed to all weathers, will never reach their full stature.

1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man 16 In the antecedent bronze period there were no beech trees, or at most but a few stragglers.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	straggler
释义	stragglern. Brit. /ˈstraɡl̩ə/, /ˈstraɡlə/, U.S. /ˈstræɡ(ə)lər/ Forms: Also 1500s–1700s stragler, 1500s strag(g)eler, strageller, 1600s Scottish straggillar. Etymology: < straggle v.¹ + -er suffix¹. One who, or a thing which, straggles. 1. One who wanders or roves without fixed direction; one who strays from his companions or from the regular route; †a gadabout; †a camp-follower, a tramp, vagabond. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > [noun] > straying or going astray > one who strayer1519 straggler1530 stray1557 strayling1838 society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > wanderer striker1393 roamerc1400 wandererc1440 whirlerc1440 gangrela1450 fluttererc1450 straggler1530 gadlinga1542 ranger1560 rover1568 fugitive1570 rangler1575 fleeter1581 extravagant1583 scatterling1590 vagranta1592 rambler1624 erratic1669 stravaiger1821 multivagant1895 society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp harlot?c1225 raikera1400 vacabond1404 vagrant1444 gangrela1450 briber?c1475 palliard1484 vagabondc1485 rogue1489 wavenger1493 hermit1495 gaberlunzie1508 knight of the field1508 loiterer1530 straggler1530 runagate1534 ruffler1535 hedge-creeper1548 Abraham man1567 cursitor1567 runner1567 walker1567 tinker1575 traveller1598 Tartar1602 stravagant1606 wagand1614 Circumcellion1623 meechera1625 hedge-bird1631 gaberlunzie man1649 tramp1664 stroller1681 jockey1685 bird of passage1717 randy1724 tramper1760 stalko1804 vagabondager1813 rintherout1814 piker1838 pikey1838 beachcomber1840 roadster1851 vagabondizer1860 roustabout1862 bum1864 migratory1866 potter1867 sundowner1868 vag1868 walkabout1872 transient1877 Murrumbidgee whaler1878 rouster1882 run-the-hedge1882 whaler1883 shaughraun1884 heather-cat1886 hobo1889 tussocker1889 gay cat1893 overlander1898 stake-man1899 stiff1899 bindle-stiff1900 dingbat1902 stew-bum1902 tired Tim (also Timothy)1906 skipper1925 Strandlooper1927 knight of the road1928 hobohemian1936 plain turkey1955 scrub turkey1955 derro1963 jakey1988 crusty1990 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 277/1 Straglers after an army, bidaulx, truandaille. 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 486/2 Desertor,..a straggeler, or forsaker of his fellowes. 1592 R. Greene Disput. Conny-catcher sig. D3 A Maid shoulde not be a stragler, but like the Snayle, carry her house on her heade. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III v. vi. 57 Lets whip these stragglers ore the seas againe. View more context for this quotation 1616 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Scornful Ladie i. sig. B4^v Wel... Is your Ladie at home? Abi. She is no stragler Sir. 1617 J. Boys Expos. Proper Psalmes: 2nd Pt. 33 Euen so the Church of God wandereth as a straggler and as a stranger in the wildernesse of this world. 1745 J. Swift Direct. to Servants 35 Bottles missing are supposed to be half stolen by Stragglers and other Servants. 1773 J. Berridge Christian World Unmasked 118 Satan may as well bar up his gates: he will not catch a single straggler. 1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham II. xxvii. 302 I rode over the ground, in the hope of finding some solitary straggler of our party. 1883 M. B. Betham-Edwards Disarmed xli In an incredibly short space of time the vast pleasure-grounds were cleared of the last straggler. figurative and in extended use.a1592 R. Greene Mamillia (1593) ii. sig. H 3 Æneas a verie stragler, yet Dido neuer founde halting.1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xvii. 285 But Homesdale raised Hills, to keep the straggler [a river] in.1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson Introd. sig. c4^v The Manila ships are the only ones which have ever traversed this vast ocean, except a French straggler or two. 2. a. Military. A soldier who leaves the line of march or falls out of the ranks. †Also, a scout or skirmisher. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by position > [noun] > straggler straggler1589 society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier with special duty > [noun] > skirmisher courier1523 skirmisher1565 straggler1589 bickerer1611 tirailleur1796 voltigeur1805 Bashi-Bazouk1855 1589 W. Warner Albions Eng. (new ed.) v. xxiiii. 105 Vntill a desperate Stragler with an arrowe pierst his head. 1603 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Hist. Descr. Worlde 160 He had lost his cariages with some fewe straglers that had martched disorderly. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 81 Our straglers that went out retired to the firm ground. 1644 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. i. 53 He..tuik fourtie men and many horses and slew many of thair straggillars. 1707 London Gaz. No. 4337/2 Col. Hill..assembled the Stragglers of the English Regiments into a Body. 1813 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) 19 July X. 545 There are many stragglers still out. 1878 R. B. Smith Carthage x. 205 He now rested for a time to recruit his troops, and to allow stragglers to rejoin him. figurative.1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 195 This maner of speech is termed the figure of digression by the Latines,..we also call him the straggler by allusion to the souldier that marches out of his array.1635 A. Gil Sacred Philos. Holy Script. Pref. sig. 2^v Although it be not lawfull for mee to handle either sword or speare; yet because I wish well to these holy wars, I have as a stragler brought my baskets of stones.1850 J. S. Blackie in tr. Æschylus Lyrical Dramas* II. 308 These Australians and Africans may be mere imbecile stragglers who have been dropt from the great army of humanity in its march.1879 R. A. Proctor Pleasant Ways Sci. v. 119 The two meteors..may have been stragglers from the main body. b. Nautical. A sailor who is absent from his ship without leave or who overstays his leave. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > one who goes ashore > sailor allowed to go ashore > who overstays his leave straggler1670 1670 J. Covel Diary in J. T. Bent Early Voy. Levant (1893) 134 We saw some of the Straglers posting down in wonderful haste. 1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. ii. i. 15 The Captain was not among them; and they were afraid to tell the Spaniards so, for fear of being all hanged for Straglers. 1815 W. Burney Falconer's New Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) Stragglers, are seamen who desert and abscond from his Majesty's ships. 1887 Queen's Regul. Nav. Service §728. 289 The Constable, or other person bringing Deserters or Stragglers on board. 1891 Daily News 22 Jan. 7/3 Sidney Stevens,..dressed in the uniform of a sailor, was charged before Mr. John Dickinson with being a ‘straggler.’ †3. A merchant who intrudes into a market without licence to trade there; an interloper. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > [noun] > petty or sordid > intrusive or unlicensed trader interloperc1590 straggler1598 intermeddler1601 1598 R. Hakluyt tr. in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 500 To purge your Countrey of such straglers of our subiects, as..are not of the Company of our merchants. 1601 J. Wheeler Treat. Commerce 55 (margin) The pedlarlike dealing of the English straglers at the Narue. 4. An animal that strays from its habitat or companions; esp. a migratory bird found at a place outside its usual range; spec. in Australia and New Zealand, a stray unbranded animal or one that falls behind or is overlooked in a round-up. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habits or actions > [noun] > that strays from habitat or companions straif1377 astray1440 stragglera1552 strayaway1820 breakaway1893 ladino1942 the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [noun] > migration > migratory bird > straggler stragglera1552 the world > animals > domestic animal > [noun] > livestock > member of livestock > that strayed from flock strayc1440 straggler1848 stranger1852 tailer1893 a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1710) I. 62 There resorte many redde Dere stragelers to the Mountaines of Weredale. 1594 R. Barnfield Affectionate Shepheard sig. Fi^v If any [sheep] prove a Strageller From his owne fellowes in a forraine field. 1647 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Worse Times iii. ix. 118 Those Straglers [sc. deer]..being out of the Protection, because out of the Pale of the Parke. 1761 Ann. Reg. 1760 127/1 The magistrates..have ordered all dogs to be muzzled..and all stragglers to be destroyed. 1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. (1835) III. 72 These animals of more southern seas can be considered only as stragglers attracted to our shores..by an abundant supply of food. 1848 H. W. Haygarth Recoll. Bush Life Austral. vi. 56 Innumerable animals of every kind of brand, and others with no brand at all, and known as ‘stragglers’, are mixed with the herds in the interior. 1852 W. Macgillivray Hist. Brit. Birds IV. 398 Very few [species] are permanently resident in Britain; but, with stragglers, we make up a pretty considerable list. 1860 G. Duppa in S. S. Crawford Sheep & Sheepmen Canterbury (1949) v. 46 Complete dipping flock..deliver stragglers. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer xviii The stragglers or strayed cattle. 1899 W. T. Greene Cage-birds 40 The Blue-headed Wagtail..is rather an accidental straggler to our shores than a resident species. 1928 ‘Brent of Bin Bin’ Up Country xvii. 296 Then I'm going to have a good fling and settle down with a straggler if I can't get the bell ewe. 1933 L. G. D. Acland in Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) 16 Dec. 21/8 Straggler, sheep that has been left on the country at a muster. It is usual to go over the country again to pick them up. 1953 O. E. Middleton in C. K. Stead N.Z. Short Stories (1966) 2nd Ser. 186 Shepherding the stragglers would be Charlie's strong-eyes, Beau and Belle. 1972 P. Newton Sheep Thief 188 Sheep that have been missed in a main muster are ‘stragglers’. To get them in may necessitate a special muster. 5. A plant, branch, etc., that grows irregularly or shoots too far; also, a plant, fruit, etc., found growing singly or apart from others of its kind. Similarly, a stray lock of hair. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by habitat or distribution > [noun] > proximity to one another > that grows singly or apart from others straggler1553 runabout1882 the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by poor growth > [noun] > weakly plant straggler1553 underling1688 spindling1851 the world > life > the body > hair > hair of head > lock or locks > [noun] lockeOE forelockc1000 hair-lockc1000 earlockOE foretopc1290 tressc1290 lachterc1375 fuke1483 sidelock1530 proudfallc1540 widow's locka1543 folding1552 fore-bush1591 flake1592 witch knot1598 tuft1603 French lock1614 head-lock1642 witch-lock1682 rat's tail1706 side-curl1749 scalp knot1805 rat-tail1823 straggler1825 scalping-tuft1826 scalp-lock1827 aggravator1835 soap-lock1840 payess1845 stringleta1852 list1859 tresslet1882 drake's tail1938 1553 R. Ascham Let. 24 Mar. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Lit. Men (1843) 14 And I in a manner alone of that tyme left a standing straggler, peradventur, though my frute be very smaul, yet,..I may yet be thought somwhat fitt for seede. 1630 Bp. J. Hall Occas. Medit. §liii There you see a cluster, whose grapes touch one another, well ripened; here you see some straglers, which grow almost solitarily, greene and hard. 1712 A. Pope tr. Ovid Fable Vertumnus & Pomona in Misc. Poems 131 Sometimes his Pruning-hook corrects the Vines, And the loose Straglers to their Ranks confines. 1825 C. Lamb Wedding in Elia 2nd Ser. My friend the Admiral..did not at once shove up his borrowed locks..to betray the few grey stragglers of his own beneath them. 1840 Mental Culture 27 Field and hedgerow stragglers, exposed to all weathers, will never reach their full stature. 1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man 16 In the antecedent bronze period there were no beech trees, or at most but a few stragglers. 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