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Ramble   /rˈæmbəl/   Listen
noun
Ramble  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 Christmas ramble."
2.
(Coal Mining) A bed of shale over the seam.
3.
A section of woods suitable for leisurely walking.
4.
A type of dance; as, the Muskrat ramble.


verb
Ramble  v. i.  (past & past part. rambled; pres. part. rambling)  
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?"
2.
To talk or write in a discursive, aimless way.
3.
To extend or grow at random.
Synonyms: To rove; roam; wander; range; stroll.





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"Ramble" Quotes from Famous Books



... Sire's return. He ceas'd, then wept his gentle nurse that sound 470 Hearing, and in wing'd accents thus replied. My child! ah, wherefore hath a thought so rash Possess'd thee? whither, only and belov'd, Seek'st thou to ramble, travelling, alas! To distant climes? Ulysses is no more; Dead lies the Hero in some land unknown, And thou no sooner shalt depart, than these Will plot to slay thee, and divide thy wealth. No, stay with us who love thee. Need is none That thou should'st on the barren Deep distress 480 Encounter, ...
— The Odyssey of Homer • Homer
... and as Infection fly, As if the Devil had Ubiquity. Hence 'tis they live as Rovers, and defie This or that Place, Rags of Geography. They're Citizens o' th' World, they're all in all; Scotland's a Nation Epidemical. And yet they ramble not to learn the Mode, How to be drest, or how to lisp abroad; To return knowing in the Spanish Shrug, Or which of the Dutch States a double Jug Resembles most in Belly or in Beard; The Card by which the Mariners are Steer'd. No! The Scots-Errant fight, and ...
— Quaint Gleanings from Ancient Poetry • Edmund Goldsmid
... such was to be the result or not remained to be seen, and the boys were sure of plenty of sport in an all-day ramble ...
— Through Forest and Fire - Wild-Woods Series No. 1 • Edward Ellis
... a six-mile ramble, we entered a small country hotel. We had seen nothing of Johnson for a half hour. At that time he was a quarter of a mile behind us, and losing rapidly. Before we had finished our luncheon he staggered into the inn. One of his ...
— The Man in Lower Ten • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... were almost all drawn from the families in whose blood, after generations of possession, the land and its belongings had become a real if somewhat perverted passion. They would sit on into the twilight in each other's studies and ramble on interminably and with the exaggerated wisdom of seventeen about the subject ...
— Boy Woodburn - A Story of the Sussex Downs • Alfred Ollivant


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