Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To walk in an awkward, lazy, or unsteady manner, shuffling the feet.
- n. A shuffling gait.
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.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- 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. To walk awkwardly and unsteadily, as if the knees were weak; to shuffle along.
WordNet 3.0
- v. walk by dragging one's feet
- n. walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet
Etymologies
- Probably from obsolete shamble, awkward, ungainly, from Middle English schamil, butcher's table; see shambles.
Examples
“The economy is in shamble, his rating has plunged lower than any president's in recent history.”
“The tournament was an 18-hole, four-man "shamble" format.”
“Spots remain available for an amateur "shamble" tournament Saturday, Aug. 14.”
“The list of celebrities for the Sunday "shamble," a modification of the scramble format, is not yet available, but Bill Murray, Kevin Costner, Vince Gill and George Brett have participated in the past.”
“The Life West Golf Classic features a four-person "shamble" (modified scramble format).”
“shamble" foursome, and a $25,000 hole-in-one prize.”
“But at other times they shamble, heads askew, wrists limp, legs at odd angles.”
“I played a couple of “gotcha cards” early, but mainly tried to shamble my racer onward.”
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“As you might expect of 'master race' zombies, these zombies don't shamble, they run.”
“Yet unlike brief comedy sketches, these new literary mash-ups shamble on long after their little gags have been exhausted.”
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