■ verb
1》 walk for pleasure in the countryside.
2》 (often ~ on ) talk or write at length in a confused or inconsequential way.
3》 (of a plant) grow over walls, fences, etc.
■ noun a walk taken for pleasure in the countryside.
Derivatives
~r noun
rambling adjective &noun
ramblingly adverb
Origin
ME: prob. related to MDu. rammelen (used of animals in the sense 'wander about on heat'), also to ram .