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Shamble   /ʃˈæmbəl/   Listen
verb
Shamble  v. i.  (past & past part. shambled; pres. part. shambling)  To walk awkwardly and unsteadily, as if the knees were weak; to shuffle along.


noun
Shamble  n.  
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."
3.
pl. A place for slaughtering animals for meat. "To make a shambles of the parliament house."





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"Shamble" Quotes from Famous Books



... more weighty than a general determination to exact seven per cent for his money, and some specific notions about capturing certain brickyards which were interfering with his quarry-sales. But Octavius watched him shamble along its sidewalks quite as the Vienna of dead and forgotten ...
— The Damnation of Theron Ware • Harold Frederic
... rest. All the bounce has gone out of me, Mate," he said with sad lines in his face. "Any extra work here is out of the question. I can only shamble ...
— Main-Travelled Roads • Hamlin Garland
... demonstration that the schoolhouse had not taken wings unto itself and flown, but was still in the old place, he would shamble downstairs, stick a couple of canes under his arm, and go forth ...
— The Day of Wrath • Maurus Jokai
... masking the guns which aim at Freedom's heart, once bore witness to the noble Spottswood's effort to realize for the working-man a Utopia in the New World. Yonder is the house, on the same river, frowning now with the cannon which defend the slave-shamble, (for the Richmond railroad passes on its verge,) where Washington was reared to love justice and honor; and over to the right its porch commands a marble shaft on which is written, "Here lies Mary, ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 9, No. 54, April, 1862 • Various
... The pool was spring-fed, and covered, as to every dead leaf and stone, with fine green moss of incomparable softness. He drank swiftly and long, then flung about with a half-insolent, half-aggressive wave of his tail, and set off at a rolling, clumsy, shuffling shamble. ...
— The Way of the Wild • F. St. Mars


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