Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To walk in an awkward, lazy, or unsteady manner, shuffling the feet.
- noun A shuffling gait.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To slaughter; destine to the shambles.
- To walk awkwardly and unsteadily, as if with weak knees.
- noun A footstool.
- noun 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.
- noun plural A slaughter-house; a place of butchery: sometimes treated as a singular.
- noun In mining. See
shammel , 2. - noun A shambling walk or gait.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (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.
- noun A place where butcher's meat is sold.
- noun A place for slaughtering animals for meat.
- intransitive verb To walk awkwardly and unsteadily, as if the knees were weak; to shuffle along.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To walk while
shuffling ordragging the feet.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb walk by dragging one's feet
- noun walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The economy is in shamble, his rating has plunged lower than any president's in recent history.
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The tournament was an 18-hole, four-man "shamble" format.
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Spots remain available for an amateur "shamble" tournament Saturday, Aug. 14.
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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.
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The tournament was an 18-hole, four-man "shamble" format.
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The Life West Golf Classic features a four-person "shamble" (modified scramble format).
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"shamble" foursome, and a $25,000 hole-in-one prize.
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But at other times they shamble, heads askew, wrists limp, legs at odd angles.
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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.
bilby commented on the word shamble
Demand real ble.
March 19, 2010