ramble

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
ramble/ˈrambl/

▶verb

• 1 walk for pleasure in the countryside.

• 2 (often ramble 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
rambler noun,
rambling adjective & noun,
ramblingly adverb.

– origin ME: prob. rel. to MDu. rammelen (used of animals in the sense ‘wander about on heat’), also to ram.