shamble

To walk in an awkward, lazy, or unsteady manner, shuffling the feet.

A shuffling gait.

To slaughter; destine to the shambles.

To walk awkwardly and unsteadily, as if with weak knees.

A footstool.

A bench; especially, a bench or stall in a market on which goods are exposed for sale. Specifically plural The tables or stalls on or in which butchers expose meat for sale; hence, a fresh-or meat-market.

plural A slaughter-house; a place of butchery: sometimes treated as a singular.

In mining. See shammel, 2.

A shambling walk or gait.

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.