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sham·ble1 
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| 1. | shambles, (used with a singular or plural verb)
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| 2. | British Dialect. a butcher's shop or stall. |
[Origin: bef. 900; ME shamel, OE sc(e)amel stool, table < LL scamellum, L scamillum, dim. of L scamnum bench; cf. G Schemel]
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sham·ble2
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–noun
| 1. | to walk or go awkwardly; shuffle. |
| 2. | a shambling gait. |
[Origin: 1675–85; perh. short for shamble-legs one that walks wide (i.e., as if straddling), reminiscent of the legs of a shamble1 (in earlier sense “butcher's table”)]
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| sham·ble
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intr.v. sham·bled, sham·bling, sham·bles To walk in an awkward, lazy, or unsteady manner, shuffling the feet. n. A shuffling gait. [Probably from obsolete shamble, awkward, ungainly, from Middle English schamil, butcher's table; see shambles.] |
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
shamble (v.)
"to walk with a shuffling gait," 1681, from an adj. meaning "ungainly, awkward" (1607), from shamble (n.) "table, bench" (see shambles) perhaps on the notion of the splayed legs of bench, or the way a worker sits astride it. Cf. Fr. bancal "bow-legged, wobbly" (of furniture), prop. "bench-legged," from banc "bench."
| Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper |
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| 1. | walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet; "from his shambling I assumed he was very old" |
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| 1. | walk by dragging one's feet; "he shuffled out of the room"; "We heard his feet shuffling down the hall" [syn: shuffle] |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
shamble [ˈʃӕmbl] verb
to walk slowly and awkwardly, (as if) not lifting one's feet properly off the ground
Example: The old man shambled wearily along the street.
Example: The old man shambled wearily along the street.
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| Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary, © 2000-2006 K Dictionaries Ltd. |
Shamble
Scam"per\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Scampered; p. pr. & vb. n. Scampering.] [OF. escamper to escape, to save one's self; L. ex from + campus the field (sc. of battle). See Camp, and cf. Decamp, Scamp, n., Shamble, v. t.] To run with speed; to run or move in a quick, hurried manner; to hasten away. --Macaulay. The lady, however, . . . could not help scampering about the room after a mouse. --S. Sharpe.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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. --Shak. 3. pl. A place for slaughtering animals for meat. To make a shambles of the parliament house. --Shak.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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