shamble

[Sham·ble]

When you shamble down the street, you move slowly and shuffle your feet. People who shamble along are usually tired, elderly, or sad.

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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.

Noun
walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet; "from his shambling I assumed he was very old"

Verb
walk by dragging one''s feet; "he shuffled out of the room"; "We heard his feet shuffling down the hall"


n.
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.

n.
A place where butcher's meat is sold.

n.
A place for slaughtering animals for meat.

v. i.
To walk awkwardly and unsteadily, as if the knees were weak; to shuffle along.


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. 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.

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.

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.

To walk awkwardly and unsteadily, as if the knees were weak; to shuffle along.

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