Definition of Straggled

1. Verb. (past of straggle) ¹

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Definition of Straggled

1. straggle [v] - See also: straggle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Straggled

strads
strae
straes
strafe
strafed
strafer
strafers
strafes
straff
straffed
straffing
straffs
strafing
strag
straggle
straggled (current term)
straggler
stragglers
straggles
stragglier
straggliest
straggliness
straggling
stragglingly
straggly
strags
strahlstein
straicht

Literary usage of Straggled

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (1855)
"... brought forwards and immolated the solemn victims ; and the trumpets summoned the heavy-armed to close firm together and advance. straggled thither. ..."

2. The Warwickshire Avon by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1892)
"gray grass and dotted with old thorn and crab trees, here clothed with hanging woods of maple, ash, and other trees, straggled over and smothered with ivy, ..."

3. The Warwickshire Avon by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1891)
"gray grass and dotted with old thorn and crab trees, here clothed with hanging woods of maple, ash, and other trees, straggled over and smothered with ivy, ..."

4. Historical Essays by Members of the Owens College, Manchester: Published in by James Tait (1907)
"The bulk was paid in by the end of 1664, but the arrears straggled on until ... Items of arrears of both sets of subsidies straggled on until June 1668. ..."

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