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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To walk in an awkward, lazy, or unsteady manner, shuffling the feet.
  2. n. A shuffling gait.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A footstool.
  2. 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.
  3. n. plural A slaughter-house; a place of butchery: sometimes treated as a singular.
  4. n. In mining. See shammel, 2.
  5. To slaughter; destine to the shambles.
  6. To walk awkwardly and unsteadily, as if with weak knees.
  7. n. A shambling walk or gait.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To walk while shuffling or dragging the feet.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. 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.
  2. n. A place where butcher's meat is sold.
  3. n. A place for slaughtering animals for meat.
  4. v. To walk awkwardly and unsteadily, as if the knees were weak; to shuffle along.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. walk by dragging one's feet
  2. n. walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet

Etymologies

  1. Probably from obsolete shamble, awkward, ungainly, from Middle English schamil, butcher's table; see shambles.

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  • bilby Demand real ble. Mar 19, 2010

‘shamble’ has been looked up 1066 times, added to 12 lists, commented on 1 time, and has a Scrabble score of 14.