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/stɹəˈveɪɡ/ · verb
(transitive) To stroll or wander aimlessly on (a road, etc.); to ramble..
[I]n them days, you see the people used to be hanged outside o' the town, […] [I]n them days they did not attind to the comforts o' the people at all, but put them into a cart, all as one as a conthrairy pig goin' to the market, and stravaiged them through the town to the gallows, that was full half a mile beyant it; […]
Innes, stravaiging the square and wynds in his apple-cart, jingled his weights in vain, unable to shake even moneyed children off their stools; […]
That I should live to see the time when me only daughter stravages the roads and hides behind stones in the night with a soldier!
In a way perhaps it's a pity, a good woman might have been the making of me, I might be sprawling in the sun now sucking my pipe and patting the bottoms of the third and fourth generation, looked up to and respected, wondering what there was for dinner, instead of stravaging the same old roads in all weathers, I was never much of a one for new ground.
Dear gudeman, what has put it i'your head that our bairn stravaigs i'the night-time?
Would you have an old woman like me stravaiging about the shore by myself?
[A] real lady like you wouldn't go prying into what she's no call to, like that fine decked-out body, Duncombe's wife, which had best mind her own children, which it is a shame to see stravaging about the place!
Whenever we came to any habitations now he would not call at back doors, nor go stravaiging in yards for odd pieces to eat, but he would go gallantly into an inn and offer his payment for the things we would like.
Use stravaig when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Stravaig means (transitive) To stroll or wander aimlessly on (a road, etc.); to ramble..
Common synonyms include amble, gallivant, saunter.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[I]n them days, you see the people used to be hanged outside o' the town, […] [I]n them days they did not attind to the comforts o' the people at all, but put them into a cart, all as one as a conthrairy pig goin' to the market, and stravaiged them through the town to the gallows, that was full half a mile beyant it; […]
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