0 past simple and past participle of straggle
1 to move or spread untidily and in small numbers or amounts:
On this rough road through hills and ravines, half of the army's horses died, one-quarter of the soldiers straggled, and all but six artillery pieces were left behind.
All three ships straggled and were sunk.
Many men straggled and a number collapsed.
At noon a straggled procession was formed of the system's 9 remaining vehicles which filed one by one into the depot which shut its gates without ceremony at 1230.
Alonso straggled into fourth, his rear tyres almost entirely bald.
Instead, he stayed with the pack train and straggled far behind the column.
Judah was so drunk that be had to be lifted from his horse when the rear guard straggled into camp.
The wheat is very late and the huts are straggled over a long continuous space.
