rambler

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  1. noun One that rambles: tourists and Sunday ramblers on the village streets; a conversational rambler.
  2. noun A type of climbing rose having numerous red, pink, or white flowers.

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  • And felt, only distantly, the vibration of heavy footsteps, his wife's quickening alarm as the rambler bore down on him. —  EBSCOhost
  • I gave the hearty wave of the dedicated dawn-rambler, and cheerily whistled my way back to the big house for breakfast. —  The Tartan Sell - Jonathan Gash - Lovejoy 10
  • The police commissioner went head foremost into a rambler-rose vine. —  103 - The Mindless Monsters
  • A well-kept rambler, it was stuck at the end of a cul-de-sac, in a yard heavy with shrubbery. —  John Sandford - The Empress File
  • So with pickaxes and shovels in tow, the family headed to the only free space in their daylight rambler: the crawl space. —  Electronic House Recently Filed
 

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/ˈræmblər/
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