0 past simple and past participle of straggle
1 to move or spread untidily and in small numbers or amounts:
A little before the appointed time the members straggled in and disposed themselves on the tables and about the walls.
Not long afterward, residents straggled back and street life became more active.
In front of us a curious figure was standing, a little crouched, legs straggled, arms held out from his sides.
His troops, poorly trained and dispirited from the rapid changes of command, straggled into action on unfavorable terrain.
She the straggled behind the convoy and was abandoned.
As a result, the fleet straggled out of the harbour in no particular formation.
The huts, he wrote, are of a miserable order and straggled over a long continuous space.
The wheat is very late and the huts are straggled over a long continuous space.
