straggle

fe’l verb

1. To stray from the road, course or line of march. He straggled away from the crowd and went off on his own.
2. To wander about; ramble.
3. To spread at irregular intervals.
4. To escape or stretch beyond proper limits, as the branches of a plant; to spread widely apart; to shoot too far or widely in growth.

ot noun

1. An irregular, spread-out group.
2. An outlier; something that has strayed beyond the normal limits.