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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 frequent, we managed to shamble down the beach, where we again dumped our cargo, ...
— Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas • Herman Melville
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... Eliphalet. His blood was sluggish, but it could be made to beat faster. The ladies he had met at Miss Crane's were not of this description. As he came forward, embarrassment made him shamble, and for the first time in his life he was angrily conscious of a poor figure. Her first question dashed out ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
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... and such a Sabbath as followed! Ex officio professors of Sabbath breaking are all whalemen. The ivory Pequod was turned into what seemed a shamble; every sailor a butcher. You would have thought we were offering up ten thousand red oxen ...
— Moby Dick; or The Whale • Herman Melville
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... best taste and echo his responses an octave higher. If he sighs at the end of a song, I bring out my pocket-handkerchief. If he says "charming," I murmur "delicious." If he thinks it "exquisite," I pronounce it "enchanting." Where he is rapt in admiration, I go into a trance, and so shamble through the performances, miserable impostor that I am, and ten to one nobody finds out that I am a dunce, fit for treason, stratagem, and spoils. It is a great strain upon the mental powers, but it is wonderful to see how much may be accomplished, ...
— Gala-days • Gail Hamilton
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... Foyle would have found it a startling journey. They swept round corners almost on two wheels, skidded on the greasy roads, and once narrowly escaped running down one of London's outcasts who was shuffling across the road with the painful shamble that seems to be the hall-mark of beggars and tramps. Few, save policemen on night duty, were about ...
— The Grell Mystery • Frank Froest
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