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shamble

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Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
16
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈʃæmbəl/
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/ˈʃæmbəl/ · [ˈʃʰæmbəl] ~ [ˈʃʰæmbl̩] · /ˈʃeə̯mbəl/(US) · [ˈʃeə̯mbəl] ~ [ˈʃeə̯mbl̩](US) · /ˈʃɛə̯mbəl/(US) · [ˈʃɛə̯mbəl] ~ [ˈʃɛə̯mbl̩](US)

Definition of shamble

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. To walk while shuffling or dragging the feet.
    “I wasn't too impressed with the fellow, when he shambled in unenthusiastically and an hour late.”
    “The old black, not in any very high glee at having been previously roused from his warm hammock at a most unseasonable hour, came shambling along from his galley, for, like many old blacks, there was something the matter with his knee-pans, which he did not keep well scoured like his other pans; [...]”
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verb

  1. To walk while shuffling or dragging the feet.
    “I wasn't too impressed with the fellow, when he shambled in unenthusiastically and an hour late.”
    “The old black, not in any very high glee at having been previously roused from his warm hammock at a most unseasonable hour, came shambling along from his galley, for, like many old blacks, there was something the matter with his knee-pans, which he did not keep well scoured like his other pans; [...]”

noun

  1. 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.

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Etymology

From Middle English schambyll, shamyll, schamel, from Old English sċeamol, scamol (“bench, stool”), from Proto-West Germanic *skamul, *skamil, from Proto-Germanic *skamulaz, *skamilaz, from Latin scamellum, a variant of scabellum (“footstool”). Cognate with Dutch schemel (“footstool, bench”), German Schemel (“stool”), Danish skammel (“stool”). Icelandic skemill (“footstool”).

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Words you can make from shamble

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6-letter words

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3-letter words

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2-letter words

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