straggle

• This straggle is part of the sexual specialization we see in our bodies, which evolution in old Africa has made moderately different. —  F ;SF; - vol 089 issue 03 - September 1995
• Then why had there been no straggle, no reaction to the shock of the cold water? —  The Silent Pool - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 25
• He began to straggle, and I had to hit him, not hard, just enough to quiet him, and I took off his clothes and put the key in his pocket, and that's all I did. —  F ;SF - vol 101 issue 03 - September 2001
• A rat on the straggle has been known to turn up in this aviary and run the gauntlet of all the cages--till he reached Charley; nothing alive and eatable ever got past him_. —  The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly
• Where we was last night--that is, Buggins and I--most respectable people in the copying line--it isn't only he as does the copying, but she too; nurses the baby, and minds the kitchen fire, and goes on, sheet after sheet, all at the same time; and a very tidy thing they make of it, only they do straggle their words so;--well, they were saying as it's one of the most remarkablest cases as ever was know'd I don't see that I shall be any the better because it's talked about Well, Miss Margaret, I'm not so sure of that. —  Miss Mackenzie

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