Definitions for: Shamble


[n] walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet; "from his shambling I assumed he was very old"
[v] walk by dragging one's feet; "he shuffled out of the room"; "We heard his feet shuffling down the hall"



Webster (1913) Definition: Sham"ble, n. [OE. schamel a bench, stool, AS. scamel,
sceamol, a bench, form, stool, fr. L. scamellum, dim. of
scamnum a bench, stool.]
1. (Mining) One of a succession of niches or platforms, one
above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively
from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher
level.

2. pl. A place where butcher's meat is sold.

As summer flies are in the shambles. --Shak.

3. pl. A place for slaughtering animals for meat.

To make a shambles of the parliament house. --Shak.


Sham"ble, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Shambled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Shambling.] [Cf. OD. schampelen to slip, schampen to
slip away, escape. Cf. Scamble, Scamper.]
To walk awkwardly and unsteadily, as if the knees were weak;
to shuffle along.

Synonyms: scuffle, shambling, shuffle, shuffle, shuffling

See Also: drag, scuff, walk, walk, walking

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