Definitions for shamble

shamble sham·ble

Spelling: [sham-buh l]
IPA: /ˈʃæm bəl/

Shamble is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 264 anagrams from letters in shamble (abehlms).

Definitions for shamble

noun

  1. shambles, (used with a singular or plural verb) a slaughterhouse. any place of carnage. any scene of destruction: any scene, place, or thing in disorder:
  2. British Dialect. a butcher's shop or stall.
  3. a shambling gait.

verb (used without object)

  1. to walk or go awkwardly; shuffle.

Origin of shamble

before 900; Middle English shamel, Old English sc(e)amel stool, table Late Latin scamellum, Latin scamillum, diminutive of Latin scamnum bench; compare German Schemel

Examples for shamble

The fisherman turned away to shamble noisily over the shingle, huge booted heels crunching, toward one of the dories.

They could not walk, they could only shamble; they could not laugh, they could only leer.

Chief George waited for no second bidding, but began to shamble off across the snow towards his encampment.

He did not shamble along, as though his courage had been driven from his body.

The men were past revolt now, they could only shamble dizzily about.

Don't you realize that they have watched man creep out of primal slimes, take limbs and shamble, and finally walk?

The ivory Pequod was turned into what seemed a shamble; every sailor a butcher.

Yes, that she would, and all at once the pails began to shamble up the hill.

Scammell preserves an older form of shamble(s), originally the benches on which meat was exposed for sale.

I gave her a pat on the chin scarcely consistent with my aged and tottering mien and proceeded to shamble painfully to my room.

Word Value for shamble
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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