Found 2 items, similar to shamble.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: shamble
shamble
n : walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your
feet;
“from his shambling I assumed he was very old”
[syn:
shambling,
shuffle,
shuffling]
shamble
v : walk by dragging one's feet;
“he shuffled out of the room”;
“We heard his feet shuffling down the hall” [syn:
shuffle,
scuffle]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Shamble
Shamble
\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.
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2. pl. A place where butcher's meat is sold.
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As summer flies are in the shambles. --Shak.
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3. pl. A place for slaughtering animals for meat.
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To make a shambles of the parliament house. --Shak.
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Shamble
\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.
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