ramble

 
Pronunciation: /ˈramb(ə)l/

verb

[no object]
  • 1walk for pleasure in the countryside: I spent most of my spare time rambling and climbing [with object]: as a boy I rambled the fells around Dent
  • 2talk or write at length in a confused or inconsequential way: Willy rambled on about Norman archways
  • 3(of a plant) put out long shoots and grow over walls or other plants: roses climbed, rambled, hung over walls

noun

  • a walk taken for pleasure in the countryside.

Origin:

late Middle English (in ramble (sense 2 of the verb)): probably related to Middle Dutch rammelen, used of animals in the sense 'wander about on heat', also to the noun ram