Straggler is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STRAGGLER in dictionary:

NOUN:
• one who straggles
• 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.
• A roving vagabond.
• Something that shoots, or spreads out, beyond the rest, or too far; an exuberant growth.
• Something that stands alone or by itself.
• someone who strays or falls behind
• a person (such as a soldier) or animal in a group that becomes separated from the others, typically because of moving more slowly.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to wander from the direct course or way; rove, stray

Words related to STRAGGLER

strag6 straggle10

Words that contain STRAGGLER

stragglers12

How to use STRAGGLER in a sentence

• The musquitoes at midday have gone to their rest, or if a straggler comes buzzing and singing about your ears, you are lulled rather than disturbed by his song.
• Still, we were nearing Fort Duquesne, and the Indians, set on by the French, began to harass us, and killed and scalped a straggler now and then, always evading pursuit.
• They sat down for another hour to avoid the chance of their being surprised by any straggler.
• At length we began to come upon various articles that had apparently been thrown away by the straggler.
• For three weeks the men had been on the march, and there was not a single straggler, not a strap out of place, not a pennant missing.
• Descending, they met a solitary Frenchman, a straggler from the fort.
• At the end of the bridge a straggler struck a match and flung it lightly in the river, the disc of his cigar a fire-point in the shadows.
• After that I became a sort of composite camp follower, deserter and straggler.
• It remains, like the Roman snail and the Portuguese slug, a mere casual straggler about its ancient haunts.
• I obtained leave to give a straggler a lift of a couple of miles.
• If a straggler supposed to understand Latin happened to sojourn in the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizard.
• I might pass out into the open country north of the town, but if I did so I should probably either die of starvation or get killed as a Japanese straggler.
• In a short time the last straggler was seen hurrying on his way, and the faint shouts of those in advance died insensibly upon the ear.
• Agile Henry, not willing to lose a single straggler, pursued the fugitive, and Paul, wishing to be as zealous, followed.
• We waited motionless until the last straggler had disappeared.
• Here and there some worn-out straggler or wounded man had crawled into shade, and lay heedless of the turmoil.
• First he encountered a straggler, who talked of defeat.
• Every straggler had fled to shelter, and the usual idlers had deserted the platform.
• I remembered the straggler who had surprised me while at the safe, several hours before.
• At first it would be broken occasionally by the hurried trot of cavalry or the shuffling footsteps of a straggler.
• More than once the others had to wait for the straggler, or else call to him.
• But there must be no firing, it might attract the notice of any straggler from the camps of those dogs of Kaffirs, and bring their infernal Dragoons down upon us.
• At the last crook of the path on the steep hillside a straggler came after him along the cliff.
• Lord Beauregard, Major Stuart, and Macleod remained on this side, keeping a lookout for a straggler, but chiefly concerned with the gradually opening and brightening sky.

Similar words containing STRAGGL without suffix er

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