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   shamble

   /ˈʃambl/

   verb

   • 1. (of a person) move with a slow, shuffling, awkward gait: "he shambled off down the corridor"

   noun

   • 1. a slow, shuffling, awkward gait: "they walked, side by side, in a slow shamble"

   Word Origin late 16th century: probably from dialect shamble ‘ungainly’, perhaps from the phrase shamble legs, with reference to the legs of trestle tables (such as would be used in a meat market: see shambles).

   Scrabble Points: 14

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