shamble

Meanings

Verb

• To walk while shuffling or dragging the feet.

Noun

• 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.

Related

Similar words

• shuffle

Origin

• From Middle English schambyll, shamyll, schamel, from Old English sċeamol, scamol, from Proto-West Germanic *skamul, *skamil, from Proto-Germanic *skamulaz, *skamilaz, from Latin scamellum, a variant of scabellum. Cognate with Dutch schemel, German Schemel, Danish skammel. Icelandic skemill.