shamble

Noun · Verb

Synonyms: shambling shuffle shuffling scuffle

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet“from his shambling I assumed he was very old”Synonyms: shambling shuffle shuffling

Verb (1)

walk by dragging one's feet“he shuffled out of the room”“We heard his feet shuffling down the hall”Synonyms: shuffle scuffle

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Shamble \Sham"ble\, n. [OE. schamel a bench, stool, AS. scamel, sceamol, a bench, form, stool, fr. L. scamellum, dim. of scamnum a bench, stool.]

1.(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. [1913 Webster]

2.pl. A place where butcher's meat is sold. [1913 Webster]

As summer flies are in the shambles.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

3.pl. A place for slaughtering animals for meat. [1913 Webster]

To make a shambles of the parliament house.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

Shamble \Sham"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Shambled; p. pr. & vb. n. Shambling.] [Cf. OD. schampelen to slip, schampen to slip away, escape. Cf. Scamble, Scamper.] To walk awkwardly and unsteadily, as if the knees were weak; to shuffle along. [1913 Webster]