Shamble

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To walk in an awkward, lazy, or unsteady manner, shuffling the feet.
  • n. A shuffling gait.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To walk while shuffling or dragging the feet.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • verb-intransitive. To walk awkwardly and unsteadily, as if the knees were weak; to shuffle along.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A footstool.
  • n. A bench; especially, a bench or stall in a market on which goods are exposed for sale. Specifically plural The tables or stalls on or in which butchers expose meat for sale; hence, a fresh-or meat-market.
  • n. plural A slaughter-house; a place of butchery: sometimes treated as a singular.
  • n. In mining. See shammel, 2.
  • To slaughter; destine to the shambles.
  • To walk awkwardly and unsteadily, as if with weak knees.
  • n. A shambling walk or gait.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. walk by dragging one's feet
  • n. walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet
  • Verb Form
    shambled    shambles    shambling   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    walking    walk   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    shambled    shambling   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    gait    walk   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Campbell    amble    bramble    gamble    preamble    ramble    scramble    tramble    unscramble   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    disarray    gulph