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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



... spent with old Parlow, and in the afternoon he was allowed to ramble about by himself, so that it was only at mealtimes and during the horrible half-hour after supper before he went up to bed that he saw ...
— Fortitude • Hugh Walpole
... her to take a walk on a certain Sunday afternoon, she agreed to do so. There was no plotting or planning about it. He named a familiar place of meeting and proposed to go thence to the cliffs—a ramble that might bring them face to face with a dozen people who knew them. She felt the happier for that. Nor could Sally Groves and her warning cast her down for long. The hint that Raymond was a gentleman and Sabina a spinner touched a point in their friendship long past. The girl knew ...
— The Spinners • Eden Phillpotts
... institutes and other private institutions for females, when all the friends have dispersed, when there is much leisure and much indolence, and a radiant, agreeable tedium reigns the whole day. In only their petticoats and white shifts, with bare arms, sometimes barefooted, the women aimlessly ramble from room to room, all of them unwashed, uncombed; lazily strike the keys of the old pianoforte with the index finger, lazily lay out cards to tell their fortune, lazily exchange curses, and with a languishing irritation ...
— Yama (The Pit) • Alexandra Kuprin
... loved to ramble about London. Often he would stop in the midst of his work, hail a taxi, and go for a drive in the green parks. The Zoological Gardens always delighted him. He frequently stopped to watch the animals. The English countryside always lured him, especially the long ...
— Charles Frohman: Manager and Man • Isaac Frederick Marcosson and Daniel Frohman
... given my most honoured mistress the story of me and my little ramble. We are now going to some other isle, to what we know not; the wind will tell us. I ...
— Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 - The Works Of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., In Nine Volumes • Samuel Johnson


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