Straggler
['stræɡlɚ]
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) A roving vagabond.
(n.) Something that shoots, or spreads out, beyond the rest, or too far; an exuberant growth.
(n.) Something that stands alone or by itself.
Checker: Wayne
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Wanderer, rambler, rover, strayer, stroller, vagrant, vagabond, nomad, bird of passage.
Editor: Tess
Examples
- There were stragglers going by long after the regiment had passed--men who could not keep up with their platoons. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- If he had come in by the front instead of through the stragglers in the rear, he would have thought and felt differently. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We first came upon a few stragglers of the Irish at St. Albans. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- We decided to wait for an hour at least until all the stragglers had sought their silks. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Only a few feeble stragglers said Yes: among them Sissy Jupe. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Some of the country people estimated the stragglers from Johnston's army as high as 20,000. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- She gave this information to the landlord, to the servants, to the guests, and the innumerable stragglers about the courtyard. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- First we passed the regiment, hotter and slower than ever: then the stragglers. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The Romans blockaded, cut up convoys, attacked stragglers, and ran away whenever Hannibal appeared. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Behind which follow stragglers of the Garde-du-Corps; all humiliated, in Grenadier bonnets. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He immediately ordered the cavalry at Winchester to be deployed across the valley to stop the stragglers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- A soldier came along after the last of the stragglers. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
Checker: Roderick