3. pl.
Defn: A place for slaughtering animals for meat.
To make a shambles of the parliament house. Shak.
SHAMBLE
Sham"ble, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Shambled; p. pr. & vb. n. Shambling.]
Etym: [Cf. OD. schampelen to slip, schampen to slip away, escape. Cf.
Scamble, Scamper.]
Defn: To walk awkwardly and unsteadily, as if the knees were weak; to shuffle along.
SHAMBLING
Sham"bling, a.
Defn: Characterized by an awkward, irregular pace; as, a shambling trot; shambling legs.
SHAMBLING
Sham"bling, n.
Defn: An awkward, irregular gait.
SHAME Shame, n. Etym: [OE. shame, schame, AS. scamu, sceamu; akin to OS. & OHG. scama, G. scham, Icel. skömm, shkamm, Sw. & Dan. skam, D. & G. schande, Goth. skanda shame, skaman sik to be ashamed; perhaps from a root skam meaning to cover, and akin to the root (kam) of G. hemd shirt, E. chemise. Cf. Sham.]
1. A painful sensation excited by a consciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of having done something which injures reputation, or of the exposure of that which nature or modesty prompts us to conceal. HIde, for shame, Romans, your grandsires' images, That blush at their degenerate progeny. Dryden. Have you no modesty, no maiden shame Shak.