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sham·ble1    Audio Help   [sham-buhl] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.shambles, (used with a singular or plural verb)
a.a slaughterhouse.
b.any place of carnage.
c.any scene of destruction: to turn cities into shambles.
d.any scene, place, or thing in disorder: Her desk is a shambles.
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    Audio Help   [sham-buhl] Pronunciation Key verb, -bled, -bling, noun
–verb (used without object)
1.to walk or go awkwardly; shuffle.
–noun
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    Audio Help   (shām'bəl)  Pronunciation Key 
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.]

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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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shamble

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

verb
1. walk by dragging one's feet; "he shuffled out of the room"; "We heard his feet shuffling down the hall" [syn: shuffle

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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.
Arabic: يَمْشي مُتَثاقِلا
Chinese (Simplified): 蹒跚地走
Chinese (Traditional): 蹣跚地走
Czech: šourat se
Danish: sjoske
Dutch: schuifelen
Estonian: jalgu järel vedama
Finnish: laahustaa
French: marcher en traînant les pieds
German: watscheln
Greek: σέρνω τα βήματά μου
Hungarian: csoszog
Icelandic: skjögra
Indonesian: berjalan terseok-seok
Italian: (camminatre strascicando i piedi)
Japanese: よろよろ歩く
Korean: 비틀거리다, 비슬비슬 걷다
Latvian: šļūkāt
Lithuanian: dūlinti, sliūkinti
Norwegian: subbe, slepe (seg)
Polish: powłóczyć nogami
Portuguese (Brazil): andar tropegamente, cambalear
Portuguese (Portugal): arrastar-se
Romanian: a merge târându-şi picioa­rele
Russian: тащиться
Slovak: vliecť sa
Slovenian: vleči se
Spanish: andar arrastrando los pies
Swedish: lufsa, sjava, gå med tunga (hasande) steg
Turkish: ayaklarını sürüyerek yürümek
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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.
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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.
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