Dictionary Entry
shamble
shamble is a 7-letter English word with 6 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 16 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
A place where butcher's meat is sold.
- 3noun
A place for slaughtering animals for meat.
- 4intransitive verb
To walk awkwardly and unsteadily, as if the knees were weak; to shuffle along.
- 5noun
walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet
"from his shambling I assumed he was very old"
- 6verb
walk by dragging one's feet
"he shuffled out of the room"
"We heard his feet shuffling down the hall"
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