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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

RAM'BLE, v.i.
1. To rove; to wander; to walk, ride or sail from place to place, without any determinate object in view; or to visit many places; to rove carelessly or irregularly; as, to ramble about the city; to ramble over the country.
Never ask leave to go abroad, for you will be thought an idle rambling fellow.
2. To go at large without restraint and without direction.
3. To move without certain direction.
O're his ample sides, the rambling sprays luxuriant shoot.
RAM'BLE, n. a roving; a wandering; a going or moving from place to place without any determinate business or object; an irregular excursion.
Coming home after a short Christmas ramble, I found a letter upon my table.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an aimless amble on a winding course [syn: ramble, meander] v
1: continue talking or writing in a desultory manner; "This novel rambles on and jogs" [syn: ramble on, ramble, jog]
2: move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town" [syn: roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond]

Merriam Webster's

I. verb (rambled; rambling) Etymology: Middle English, probably alteration of romblen, frequentative of romen to roam Date: 15th century intransitive verb 1. a. to move aimlessly from place to place b. to explore idly 2. to talk or write in a desultory or long-winded wandering fashion 3. to grow or extend irregularly transitive verb to wander over ; roam Synonyms: see wander • ramblingly adverb II. noun Date: 1654 1. a leisurely excursion for pleasure; especially an aimless walk 2. a rambling story or discussion

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v.intr. 1 walk for pleasure, with or without a definite route. 2 wander in discourse, talk or write disconnectedly. --n. a walk taken for pleasure. Etymology: prob. f. MDu. rammelen (of an animal) wander about in sexual excitement, frequent. of rammen copulate with, rel. to RAM

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Ramble Ram"ble, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rambled; p. pr. & vb. n. Rambling.] [For rammle, fr. Prov. E. rame to roam. Cf. Roam.] 1. To walk, ride, or sail, from place to place, without any determinate object in view; to roam carelessly or irregularly; to rove; to wander; as, to ramble about the city; to ramble over the world. He that is at liberty to ramble in perfect darkness, what is his liberty better than if driven up and down as a bubble by the wind? --Locke. 2. To talk or write in a discursive, aimless way. 3. To extend or grow at random. --Thomson. Syn: To rove; roam; wander; range; stroll.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Ramble Ram"ble, n. 1. A going or moving from place to place without any determinate business or object; an excursion or stroll merely for recreation. Coming home, after a short Christians ramble. --Swift. 2. [Cf. Rammel.] (Coal Mining) A bed of shale over the seam. --Raymond.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(rambles, rambling, rambled) 1. A ramble is a long walk in the countryside. ...an hour's ramble through the woods. N-COUNT 2. If you ramble, you go on a long walk in the countryside. ...freedom to ramble across the moors. VERB: V adv/prep 3. If you say that a person rambles in their speech or writing, you mean they do not make much sense because they keep going off the subject in a confused way. Sometimes she spoke sensibly; sometimes she rambled... VERB: V

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. n. Rove, wander, stroll, range, roam, straggle, stray. II. n. Stroll, excursion, trip, tour, wandering, rambling, roving.

Moby Thesaurus

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