Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

   2. pl. A place where butcher's meat is sold.

            As summer flies are in the shambles.  --Shak.

   3. pl. 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}.] [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.

Source : WordNet®

shamble
     n : walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your
         feet; "from his shambling I assumed he was very old"
         [syn: {shambling}, {shuffle}, {shuffling}]

shamble
     v : walk by dragging one's feet; "he shuffled out of the room";
         "We heard his feet shuffling down the hall" [syn: {shuffle},
          {scuffle}]