n. | 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. |
2. | A place where butcher's meat is sold. | |
3. | A place for slaughtering animals for meat. | |
v. i. | 1. | To walk awkwardly and unsteadily, as if the knees were weak; to shuffle along. |
Noun | 1. | shamble - walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet; "from his shambling I assumed he was very old" |
Verb | 1. | shamble - walk by dragging one's feet; "he shuffled out of the room"; "We heard his feet shuffling down the hall" |