v.
- walk for pleasure in the countryside.
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(often ramble on)
talk or write at length in a confused or inconsequential way.
- (of a plant) grow over walls, fences, etc.
n.
a walk taken for pleasure in the countryside.
Derivative
- rambler n.
- rambling adj. & n.
- ramblingly adv.
Etymology
ME: prob. rel. to MDu. rammelen (used of animals in the sense ‘wander about on heat’), also to ram.