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perambulating

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per·am·bu·late  (p-rmby-lt)
v. per·am·bu·lat·ed, per·am·bu·lat·ing, per·am·bu·lates
v.tr.
1. To walk through.
2. To inspect (an area) on foot.
v.intr.
To walk about; roam or stroll.
[Latin perambulre, perambult- : per-, per- + ambulre, to walk; see ambhi in Indo-European roots.]
per·ambu·lation n.
per·ambu·la·tory (-l-tôr, -tr) adj.
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Adj.1.perambulating - strolling or walking around; "perambulating nursemaids with their charges"
mobile - moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place); "a mobile missile system"; "the tongue is...the most mobile articulator"


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But do you suppose I was going to walk into church beside a perambulating haystack like that?
Anne's House of Dreams by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
They dragged themselves from the swamp singly, and in twos and threes, more dead than alive, mere perambulating skeletons, until at last there were thirty of us.
Before Adam by London, Jack View in context
The greater part of the travellers were aware of this interruption, and, leaving the train, they began to engage such vehicles as the village could provide four-wheeled palkigharis, waggons drawn by zebus, carriages that looked like perambulating pagodas, palanquins, ponies, and what not.
Around The World In Eighty Days by Verne, Jules View in context
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