straggle
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Outside, in wadding of the damp, Red lights in streaks, like burning rags, Straggle from reeking lamp to lamp.
From Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell by Various
Straggle, strag′l, v.i. to wander from the course: to ramble: to stretch beyond proper limits: to be dispersed.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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