(Askeri) DÖKÜNTÜ, SARKAN: Bariz bir amacı veya tayin edilmiş bir görevi olmaksızın birliklerinden, yürüyüş kolundan veya teşkillerinden ayrı düşmüş herhangi personel, araç, gemi veya uçaklar. Ayrıca bakınız: "line of drift"
To wander from the direct course or way; to rove; to stray; to wander from the line of march or desert the line of battle; as, when troops are on the march, the men should not straggle
If a small quantity of things straggle over an area, they cover it in an uneven or untidy way. Her grey hair straggled in wisps about her face They were beyond the last straggling suburbs now
go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way; "Branches straggling out quite far"
If people straggle somewhere, they move there slowly, in small groups with large, irregular gaps between them. They came straggling up the cliff road
a wandering or disorderly grouping (of things or persons); "a straggle of outbuildings"; "a straggle of followers"
One who straggles, or departs from the direct or proper course, or from the company to which he belongs; one who falls behind the rest; one who rambles without any settled direction
The stragglers are the people in a group who are moving more slowly or making less progress than the others. There were two stragglers twenty yards back. a person or animal that is behind the others in a group, because they are moving more slowly
Straggly hair or a straggly plant is thin and grows or spreads out untidily in different directions. Her long fair hair was knotted and straggly. growing untidily and spreading out in different directions