Shamble
['ʃæmb(ə)l] or ['ʃæmbl]
Definition
(noun.) walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet; 'from his shambling I assumed he was very old'.
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Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Hobble, shuffle.
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Definition
v.i. to walk with an awkward unsteady gait.—n. a shambling gait.—adj. Sham′bling.
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Examples
- The shambling figure, and the scanty great-coat, were not to be mistaken. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The gen'l'm'n can't go in just now,' said a shambling pot-boy, with a red head, 'cos' Mr. Lowten's a-singin' a comic song, and he'll put him out. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Sit down, you dancing, prancing, shambling, scrambling poll-parrot! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- If we _will keep_ a shambling, loose, untaught set in the community, for our convenience, why, we must take the consequence. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Obeying her, he shambled out, and Eugene Wrayburn saw the tears exude from between the little creature's fingers as she kept her hand before her eyes. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Sab Than lay dead beside his father, and the corpses of the flower of Zodangan nobility and chivalry covered the floor of the bloody shambles. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- It was not wide enough either to carry all the transport for an offensive and the Austrians could make a shambles out of it. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- When it cleared again the place was a shambles. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
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