Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Loiter

Loiter , intransitive verb

[Dutch leuteren to delay, loiter; cf; Prov. German lottern to be louse, lotter louse, slack, unsettled, vagrant, Old High German lotar.]

1.
To be slow in moving; to delay; to linger; to be dilatory; to spend time idly; to saunter; to lag behind.
Sir John, you loiter here too long. — Shakespeare
If we have loitered, let us quicken our pace. — Rogers
2.
To wander as an idle vagrant. [Obsolete] — Spenser