straggle

Meanings

1. To stray, rove, or wander from a normal course and others of its kind.
2. To act in a disorderly and irregular way.
3. To move along slowly so as to remain some distance behind the person or people in front.

1. An irregular, spread-out group.
2. An outlier; something that has strayed beyond the normal limits.

Etymology

From Middle English straglen, of uncertain origin, possibly from (or cognate to) dialectal Norwegian stragla (“to walk laboriously”).