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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



... and cried and wrung her thin hands when she saw their old foreman told to go to the devil, and shamble off with his cap in his hand ...
— Weird Tales from Northern Seas • Jonas Lie
... They shamble in one after another, with steaming breath, for it is winter, and loud clattering of hob-nailed boots; they beat the snow from off them as they enter, and through the opened door I catch a momentary glimpse of a dreary ...
— The Way of All Flesh • Samuel Butler
... of the boys, who was driving a trim-looking bay, and who had crossed the line at the ending of the course second only to the pacer that could "speed like lightning," as the boys said; "Hillow, deacon, ain't you going to shake out old shamble-heels and show us fellows what speed is, to-day?" And the merry-hearted chap, son of the principal lawyer of the place, laughed heartily at his challenge, while the other drivers looked at the great angular ...
— How Deacon Tubman and Parson Whitney Kept New Year's - And Other Stories • W. H. H. Murray
... Player is one of the very few of Diderot's pieces of which we can say that, besides containing vigorous thought, it has real finish in point of literary form. There is not the flat tone, the heavy stroke, the loose shamble, that give a certain stamp of commonness to so many of his most elaborate discussions. In the Paradox the thoughts seem to fall with rapidity and precision into their right places; they are direct; they are not overloaded with qualifications; their clear delivery is not choked by a throng of asides ...
— Diderot and the Encyclopaedists (Vol 1 of 2) • John Morley
... motionless form beside me—a look that he seemed unable to abstain from giving, though against his will. I met his glance, and he hurried away back to his own door, and went through it as a leper will shuffle and shamble ...
— To-morrow? • Victoria Cross


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