shamblen.¹

/ˈʃamb(ə)l/

Forms: α. Old English scomul, scomel, scoemel, sceamel, sceamol, sceamul, scæmol, scamul, scamol, Old English–Middle English scamel, Middle English scæmel, Middle English scheomel, schamel, Middle English schamil, shamyll, Middle English shamel, Middle English schamel, schamylle, sh(e)amle, schamylle, shaumelle, Middle English–1500s shamell, 1500s (1800s dialect) shammel, shamil, shamwelle, shammoulle. β. Middle English sheamble, Middle English–1500s schambylle, 1500s plural sh-, chambulles, shambylles, 1600s shambel, 1500s– shamble.

Etymology: Old English sc(e)amel (masculine), = Old Saxon (fôt ) skamel (Middle Low German schemel , Middle Dutch schamel , schemel , modern Frisian skammel ), Old High German (fuoȥ ) scamel , -il (Middle High German schamel , schemel , modern German schemel ); a Common West Germanic adoption of Latin scamellum diminutive of scamnum bench. From Low German is probably Old Norse skemill (Danish skammel ), whence scamble n.¹

†1. A stool, footstool. Chiefly in figurative context.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > stool > [noun]

shamblec825

stool1390

tabouret1656

tambouret1658

mora1818

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > support or rest > [noun] > for feet

shamblec825

stoola1250

benchc1405

buffet1432

foot cushiona1475

footstool1530

cricket1559

grest1563

foot stock1567

hassock1582

cracket1635

crock1709

tuffet1805

mora1818

footrest1833

toe-board1892

c825 Vesp. Ps. cix. 1 Oð ðæt ic sette feond ðine scomul [scabellum] fota ðinra.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 129 For þi alle þe haleȝen makeden al þe world asan scheomel [a1250 Titus schamel; a1250 Nero stol] under hare fotes to reache þe heouene.

a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xcviii. 5 Heghis þe lord oure god, and loutis þe shamyll of his fete: for it is haly.

1483 Cath. Angl. 333/1 A Schamylle (MS. Addit. Schambylle), vbi A stule (MS. Addit. Macellum).

†a. In Old English, a table or counter for exposing goods for sale, counting money, etc. Obsolete.

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society > trade and finance > selling > [noun] > stand or board on which goods exposed

shamble971

whimsy-board1702

showcard1802

dump bin1961

971 Blickl. Hom. 71 He þa ineode on þæt halige Salemannes templ, & þa ut awearp þa sceomolas þara cypemanna.

1289 in Wood's MS. C. i. lf. 36 Shopa cum sponda quae dicitur schamel [in the Bucherow].

b. spec. A table or stall for the sale of meat.

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society > trade and finance > trading place > stall or booth > [noun] > for sale of food or drink

shamblec1305

flesh-stall14..

fisher-stall1572

fish-stall1818

whelk-stall1842

coffee stall1850

poultry stall1852

peanut stand1853

raw bar1914

doggery1930

pannam1972

α.

c1305 Of Men Lif, etc. xv, in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 155 Hail be ȝe potters [? bochers] wiþ ȝur bole ax..ȝe stondiþ at þe schamil [printed sthamil in Rel. Ant. II. 176], brod ferlich bernes.

1548 in E. Green Somerset Chantries (1888) 191 [John Spiringe and Peter Leighe hold a] shamell [there, and render per ann. xxiiij s.].

1548 in E. Green Somerset Chantries (1888) 201 [John Kape holds a meat] shamell [in Fore strete].

β. a1563 V. Leigh Moste Profitable Sci. Surueying (1577) sig. D iij^v And in like maner of profites of Bothes, standinges, shambles and tolles or other profits of a wekely market..kept within.1844 W. Barnes Poems Rural Life in Dorset Dial. 346 Shambles, Butchers' benches or stalls.1850 ‘S. Yendys’ Roman i. 11 The form that served The world for signs of beauty, parcell'd out A carcase on the shambles.1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Shambles, portable covered stalls, set up in a market-place for the sale of meat. Not applied to the market itself. Precisely the same erection for the sale of any other article would be a ‘standing’.figurative.1830 J. Milne Widow & Son (1851) ii. 155 I mean to give a short preamble Because it tallies with the common run Of tales laid on the literary shamble.

a. plural. A place where meat (or occasionally fish) is sold, a flesh- or meat-market. ? Now local.

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society > trade and finance > trading place > market > [noun] > market-place > for sale of food > for sale of meat or fish

coney-cheaping?a1325

flesh-shamblesa1410

shamblesa1410

poultry1423

butcher rowa1425

poultry market1437

flesh-market1535

fish-shambles1601

Smithfield1647

piscary1706

meat market1722

fish-market-

fish-street-

a1410 in York Myst. Introd. 24 (note) All the folks of the salsemaker crafte..without the Flesshchameles.

1480 W. Worcester in J. Nasmith Itineraria (1778) 170 In vico de Worshyp-strete alias shamellys sive bocherye.

1480 W. Worcester in J. Nasmith Itineraria (1778) 170 In vico vocato le shamelys.

1480 Table Prouffytable Lernynge (Caxton) (1964) 9 Goo to the flesshshamels.

1484 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 229 The twychell betwix Þe Shaumelles and þe Draperie.

1546 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1888) III. 30 To the kinges majestie furth of one burgage in Fleshamelles xvjd.

1554 Roll of Totnes Guild Merchants Received ffor the fishe shamells at the hands of James Pelliton, beeyng lett unto hym at ferme, liij^s viij^d.

1574 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 424 To send ther fleash..to the fleash shammoulles ther to be sold.

β. 1477–8 in Hist. MSS Comm.: 10th Rep.: App. Pt. V: MSS Marquis of Ormonde &c. (1885) 312 in Parl. Papers (C. 4576-I) XLII. 1 If ony man..sill fleshe within the citie..till it come to the Kyngs sheambles.1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 55 Sent Martyns at the chambulles end, sent Nicolas in the chambulles, and sent Ewyns.1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 58 The viij. day of March [1549] a bucher of sent Nicolas shambulles was put on the pyllery.1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 77 Item the xvij. day of May [1553] the market in Newgate market was removyd unto..the shambylles where sent Nicolas church sometyme was.1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Carnarium, a lardar: the shambles: flesh meate.c1570 W. Wager Longer thou Livest (Brandl) 251 In S. Nicholas shambles, ther is inough.1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 10 They haue Shambles of men and womens flesh, ioynted and cut in seuerall Morsels.1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xxxiv. 137 This City hath an hundred and three score Butchers shambles, and in each of them an hundred stalls.1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 292/2 At the Shambles, where they [sc. Butchers] sell their meat.1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. i. ii. 31 Dogs and Cats are killed purposely for the Shambles.1725 I. Watts Logick iii. iii. 478 Raw Meat is bought in the Shambles.1835 1st Rep. Commissioners Munic. Corporations Eng. & Wales App. iv. 2627 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 116) XXV. 1 The Shambles are let weekly upon the market day, in standings.

b. Construed as a singular; also in singular form.

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1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Bii^v/1 Y^e Shamble, macellum.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 87 There is the Pallace of a Gentleman, who proving a Traytor, the State..turned the same into a shambles, and some upper chambers to places of judgement. The fish market lies by this shambles.

a1625 J. Fletcher Rule a Wife (1640) iii. 30 I stink like a stall-fish shambles.

1636 R. Basset tr. G. A. de Paoli Lives Rom. Emperors 64 He was called of many Macellinus, of the Latine word Macellum a shambles, or butchery.

c. transferred and figurative.

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1608 J. Day Humour out of Breath sig. C4^v Venice..tis counted the best flesh-shambles in Italie.

1610 J. Donne Pseudo-martyr Pref. sig. C2^v As..he would make in this Kingdome a spirituall shambles of your soules, by corrupt Doctrines: so..he labours to make a Temporall shambles and market of your bodies, by selling you for nothing, and thrusting you vpon the Ciuill sword.

1843 J. G. Whittier Massach. to Virginia 50 Watching round the shambles where human flesh is sold.

a. plural. The place where animals are killed for meat; a slaughterhouse.

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the world > life > death > killing > killing of animals > [noun] > slaughter-house

flesh housec1000

butchery1340

slaughterhousec1374

flesh-shamblesa1410

fleshhewery1483

shambles1548

slaughtery1648

slaughter-pen1688

shamble1885

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. John x. 1–5 They bee called to their foode, and not to the fleshe shambles to be killed.

1607 B. Jonson Volpone i. i. sig. B^v I..fat no beasts To feede the Shambles .

1726 J. Arbuthnot et al. It cannot rain but it Pours 7 A Flock of Sheep that were driving to the Shambles.

1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge lxxi. 354 He was felled like an ox in the butcher's shambles.

1876 Bulwer-Lytton's Pausanias (ed. 2) i. ii. 49 Savage though the custom, it smells not so foully of the shambles.

b. Construed as a singular; also in singular form.

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the world > life > death > killing > killing of animals > [noun] > slaughter-house

flesh housec1000

butchery1340

slaughterhousec1374

flesh-shamblesa1410

fleshhewery1483

shambles1548

slaughtery1648

slaughter-pen1688

shamble1885

1697 S. Patrick Comm. Exod. (xxx. 8) 598 The vast number of Beasts that were slain..at the Sanctuary..would have made it smell like a Shambles.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth iii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 89 Like the disgusting refuse of a shambles.

1885 M. Bridges Pop. Mod. Hist. 433 Nobles, priests and women were slaughtered like sheep in a shamble.

5. transferred and figurative.

a. A place of carnage or wholesale slaughter; a scene of blood. Chiefly plural construed as singular; rarely in singular form.

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the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [noun] > scene of

butchery?1552

slaughterhouse1578

shamble1593

Aceldama1607

corpse-factory1919

killing ground1946

killing field1980

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 12 b The Infidell-Romaines..shall inuade thee, and make thy Citty..a shambles of dead bodies.

a1634 G. Chapman Bussy D'Ambois (1641) v. 69 If I scape Monsieurs Pothecarie Shops, Foutir, for Guises Shambles.

1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper i. 48 That it may appeare indeed, what bloud-hounds the Papists are, what a Shambles their Church is, consult a grand Witnesse of their own.

a1649 W. Drummond Irene in Wks. (1711) 170 The Bodies of Common-wealths are already turned into Skeletons, the Cities into Sepulchres, the Fields into Schambles.

a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 33/2 Earth turns an hideous Shamble, a Lake of Blood.

1741 I. Watts Improvem. Mind i. xviii. 295 When the Person or his Opinion is made the Jest of the Mob, or his Back the Shambles of the Executioner.

1794 S. T. Coleridge Fall of Robespierre i. i. 79 I've fear'd him, since his iron heart endured To make of Lyons one vast human shambles.

1868 F. W. Farrar Seekers after God i. iii. 51 A brutal..barbarity often turned a house into the shambles of an executioner.

1901 ‘Linesman’ Words by Eyewitness (1902) ix. 177 What a shambles the deep valley between Inkweloane and Spitz Kop would have been!

b. plural. In more general use, a scene of disorder or devastation; a ruin; a mess. Originally U.S.

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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > [noun] > scene of disorder

shamble1926

pantomime1941

dumpster fire2008

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > absence of arrangement > [noun] > a disorderly collection

rabblea1398

hotchpotc1405

hotchpotchc1410

mishmashc1475

gaggle?1478

chaos?1550

humble-jumble1550

huddle1587

wilderness1594

lurry1607

hatterc1626

farragoa1637

bumble1648

higgledy-piggledy1659

jumble1661

clutter1666

hugger-mugger1674

litter1730

imbroglio1753

confusion1791

cludder1801

hurrah's nest1829

hotter1834

welter1857

muddle1863

splatter1895

shamble1926

1926 P. H. de Kruif Microbe Hunters iii. iv. 83 Once more his laboratory became a shambles of cluttered flasks and hurrying assistants.

1942 E. Waugh Put out More Flags ii. 150 Alastair learned, too, that all schemes ended in a ‘shambles’ which did not mean, as he feared, a slaughter, but a brief restoration of individual freedom of movement.

1966 M. R. D. Foot SOE in France viii. 184 Helped the commandos to make a thorough shambles of the main dockyard.

1979 Daily Tel. 5 Sept. 6/6 Haiti remains a dictatorship, its economy in a shambles.

6. Mining. See quot. 1819. Also shammel n.

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society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > landing- or passing-place

shamble1671

passing doors1839

pass-by1883

1671 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 6 2102 A Tin-shaft..which we sink down about a fathom, and then leave a little long square place, termed a Shamble, and so continue sinking from cast to cast.

1819 W. Dickinson Mortimer's Gen. Commerc. Dict. (ed. 2) Shambles, among miners, a sort of niches or landing-places, left at such distances in the adits of mines, that the shovel-men may conveniently throw up the ore from shamble to shamble, till it comes to the top of the mine.

1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 174 Shambles, shelves or benches, from one to the other of which successively ore is thrown in raising it to the level above, or to the surface.

7. dialect. plural. ‘The frame of wood that hangs over a shaft-horse in a cart’ (Halliwell 1847).

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > parts of > frame over cart-horse

shamble1596

shamble-stave1596

1596 [see shamble-stave n. at Compounds 2].

1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 257 Having also a head of boards, and shambles over the thills.

1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 219.

8. ? A shoal. Perhaps only plural the name of a shoal off Portland Bill (hence Cook's use in quot. 1769).

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the world > the earth > water > body of water > [noun] > shallow place

shoal839

shoala1400

bank?1473

undeep1513

shelf1545

flat1550

vadea1552

ford1563

shallow1571

shoaling1574

ebbs1577

shelve1582

bridge1624

ballow1677

shamble1769

sharp1776

poling ground1901

sea-shoal1903

1769 J. Cook Voy. round World (1771) 70 About three miles N.E. from Portland [in the Pacific] are several shoals, which we called the Shambles.

a1773 J. Hutchins Hist. Dorset (1774) I. 587 The Shambles, called by Hollingshed the Shingles, is a bank of sand, lying about four miles E. by S. from the Bill [Portland].

1800 C. Sturt in Naval Chron. (1801) 4 394 Carrying me dead upon the Shambles [off Portland], where the sea was running tremendously high.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

shamble door n.

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1889 H. R. Haggard Cleopatra ii. vii No lamb skipping at the shamble doors can be more innocent of its doom than is Queen Cleopatra.

shamble-fly n.

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a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Old Law (1656) iii. 43 Those Shamble flies Which Butchers boyes snap betweene sleepe and waking.

shamble-house n.

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1846 E. Bulwer-Lytton Lucretia III. ii. xviii. 134 The failure..left the more impatient murderer leisure to..render the Insurances on the life of the latter less open to suspicion than if effected immediately on her entrance into that shamble house.

shamble-oozing adj.

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1894 E. Lee-Hamilton Sonn. Wingless Hours 102 A Paris gutter of the good old times, Black and putrescent in its stagnant bed, Save where the shamble oozings fringe it red.

shambles-blood n.

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1772 A. Hunter et al. Georgical Ess. (new ed.) III. v. 169 A compost made of shambles blood and saw-dust.

shambles keeping adj.

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1559 J. Feckenham in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1709) ii. App. ix. 26 There was no open Flesh eatinge, nor Shambles kepeinge, in the Lent and Daies prohibitid.

shamble warden n.

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1835 1st Rep. Commissioners Munic. Corporations Eng. & Wales App. ii. 1095 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 116) XXIII. 133 The Shamble Wardens have the inspection of meat, fish and butter.

1835 1st Rep. Commissioners Munic. Corporations Eng. & Wales App. ii. 1370 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 116) XXIII. 133 Two officers, named Shamble Wardens are appointed..to inspect the meat.

shamble-seeking adj.

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1638 G. Daniel Eclog. i. 122 You..might..Scorne These Shamble-seeking birds.

shamble-smelling adj.

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1603 T. Dekker 1603: Wonderfull Yeare sig. B4 In shamble-smelling roomes.

C2.

† shamble-hook n. Obsolete a hook for hanging meat upon.

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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > hook or frame for hanging meat

cambrelc1450

gambrel1547

butcher's hook1596

flesh-hook1596

cambren1656

shamble-hook1688

stage1715

meathook1771

progger1818

gamble1831

gallows1866

gammon1874

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 313/2 A Shamble Hook.

shamble-meat n. (also shambles-meat) butcher's meat.

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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > [noun] > meat > butcher-meat

butcher's meat1608

shamble-meat1618

dead meat1879

1618 Licence to eat Flesh in Penny Mag. (1836) 5 259 Forbidding them all manner of shamble-meates whatsoever.

1736 F. Drake Eboracum i. vi. 219 This city is as well supplied with all sorts of shambles-meat as most markets in England.

1891 Reports Provinc. (E.D.D.) I mind the time when old people [in Devonshire] said, ‘It's more'n a month since we had any shammel-mate’.

shamble-stave n. one of the bars forming ‘shambles’ (sense 7).

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > parts of > frame over cart-horse

shamble1596

shamble-stave1596

1596 L. Mascall Bk. Cattell ii. 120 Preparing the cart... Al the shamble staues to be made of good dry and tough ash, which are to beare a burthen from the thyller.

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单词	shamble
释义	shamblen.¹ /ˈʃamb(ə)l/ Forms: α. Old English scomul, scomel, scoemel, sceamel, sceamol, sceamul, scæmol, scamul, scamol, Old English–Middle English scamel, Middle English scæmel, Middle English scheomel, schamel, Middle English schamil, shamyll, Middle English shamel, Middle English schamel, schamylle, sh(e)amle, schamylle, shaumelle, Middle English–1500s shamell, 1500s (1800s dialect) shammel, shamil, shamwelle, shammoulle. β. Middle English sheamble, Middle English–1500s schambylle, 1500s plural sh-, chambulles, shambylles, 1600s shambel, 1500s– shamble. Etymology: Old English sc(e)amel (masculine), = Old Saxon (fôt ) skamel (Middle Low German schemel , Middle Dutch schamel , schemel , modern Frisian skammel ), Old High German (fuoȥ ) scamel , -il (Middle High German schamel , schemel , modern German schemel ); a Common West Germanic adoption of Latin scamellum diminutive of scamnum bench. From Low German is probably Old Norse skemill (Danish skammel ), whence scamble n.¹ †1. A stool, footstool. Chiefly in figurative context. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > stool > [noun] shamblec825 stool1390 tabouret1656 tambouret1658 mora1818 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > support or rest > [noun] > for feet shamblec825 stoola1250 benchc1405 buffet1432 foot cushiona1475 footstool1530 cricket1559 grest1563 foot stock1567 hassock1582 cracket1635 crock1709 tuffet1805 mora1818 footrest1833 toe-board1892 c825 Vesp. Ps. cix. 1 Oð ðæt ic sette feond ðine scomul [scabellum] fota ðinra. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 129 For þi alle þe haleȝen makeden al þe world asan scheomel [a1250 Titus schamel; a1250 Nero stol] under hare fotes to reache þe heouene. a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xcviii. 5 Heghis þe lord oure god, and loutis þe shamyll of his fete: for it is haly. 1483 Cath. Angl. 333/1 A Schamylle (MS. Addit. Schambylle), vbi A stule (MS. Addit. Macellum). 2. †a. In Old English, a table or counter for exposing goods for sale, counting money, etc. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > [noun] > stand or board on which goods exposed shamble971 whimsy-board1702 showcard1802 dump bin1961 971 Blickl. Hom. 71 He þa ineode on þæt halige Salemannes templ, & þa ut awearp þa sceomolas þara cypemanna. 1289 in Wood's MS. C. i. lf. 36 Shopa cum sponda quae dicitur schamel [in the Bucherow]. b. spec. A table or stall for the sale of meat. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > stall or booth > [noun] > for sale of food or drink shamblec1305 flesh-stall14.. fisher-stall1572 fish-stall1818 whelk-stall1842 coffee stall1850 poultry stall1852 peanut stand1853 raw bar1914 doggery1930 pannam1972 α. c1305 Of Men Lif, etc. xv, in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 155 Hail be ȝe potters [? bochers] wiþ ȝur bole ax..ȝe stondiþ at þe schamil [printed sthamil in Rel. Ant. II. 176], brod ferlich bernes. 1548 in E. Green Somerset Chantries (1888) 191 [John Spiringe and Peter Leighe hold a] shamell [there, and render per ann. xxiiij s.]. 1548 in E. Green Somerset Chantries (1888) 201 [John Kape holds a meat] shamell [in Fore strete]. β. a1563 V. Leigh Moste Profitable Sci. Surueying (1577) sig. D iij^v And in like maner of profites of Bothes, standinges, shambles and tolles or other profits of a wekely market..kept within.1844 W. Barnes Poems Rural Life in Dorset Dial. 346 Shambles, Butchers' benches or stalls.1850 ‘S. Yendys’ Roman i. 11 The form that served The world for signs of beauty, parcell'd out A carcase on the shambles.1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Shambles, portable covered stalls, set up in a market-place for the sale of meat. Not applied to the market itself. Precisely the same erection for the sale of any other article would be a ‘standing’.figurative.1830 J. Milne Widow & Son (1851) ii. 155 I mean to give a short preamble Because it tallies with the common run Of tales laid on the literary shamble. 3. a. plural. A place where meat (or occasionally fish) is sold, a flesh- or meat-market. ? Now local. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > market > [noun] > market-place > for sale of food > for sale of meat or fish coney-cheaping?a1325 flesh-shamblesa1410 shamblesa1410 poultry1423 butcher rowa1425 poultry market1437 flesh-market1535 fish-shambles1601 Smithfield1647 piscary1706 meat market1722 fish-market- fish-street- a1410 in York Myst. Introd. 24 (note) All the folks of the salsemaker crafte..without the Flesshchameles. 1480 W. Worcester in J. Nasmith Itineraria (1778) 170 In vico de Worshyp-strete alias shamellys sive bocherye. 1480 W. Worcester in J. Nasmith Itineraria (1778) 170 In vico vocato le shamelys. 1480 Table Prouffytable Lernynge (Caxton) (1964) 9 Goo to the flesshshamels. 1484 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 229 The twychell betwix Þe Shaumelles and þe Draperie. 1546 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1888) III. 30 To the kinges majestie furth of one burgage in Fleshamelles xvjd. 1554 Roll of Totnes Guild Merchants Received ffor the fishe shamells at the hands of James Pelliton, beeyng lett unto hym at ferme, liij^s viij^d. 1574 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 424 To send ther fleash..to the fleash shammoulles ther to be sold. β. 1477–8 in Hist. MSS Comm.: 10th Rep.: App. Pt. V: MSS Marquis of Ormonde &c. (1885) 312 in Parl. Papers (C. 4576-I) XLII. 1 If ony man..sill fleshe within the citie..till it come to the Kyngs sheambles.1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 55 Sent Martyns at the chambulles end, sent Nicolas in the chambulles, and sent Ewyns.1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 58 The viij. day of March [1549] a bucher of sent Nicolas shambulles was put on the pyllery.1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 77 Item the xvij. day of May [1553] the market in Newgate market was removyd unto..the shambylles where sent Nicolas church sometyme was.1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Carnarium, a lardar: the shambles: flesh meate.c1570 W. Wager Longer thou Livest (Brandl) 251 In S. Nicholas shambles, ther is inough.1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 10 They haue Shambles of men and womens flesh, ioynted and cut in seuerall Morsels.1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xxxiv. 137 This City hath an hundred and three score Butchers shambles, and in each of them an hundred stalls.1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 292/2 At the Shambles, where they [sc. Butchers] sell their meat.1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. i. ii. 31 Dogs and Cats are killed purposely for the Shambles.1725 I. Watts Logick iii. iii. 478 Raw Meat is bought in the Shambles.1835 1st Rep. Commissioners Munic. Corporations Eng. & Wales App. iv. 2627 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 116) XXV. 1 The Shambles are let weekly upon the market day, in standings. b. Construed as a singular; also in singular form. ΚΠ 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Bii^v/1 Y^e Shamble, macellum. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 87 There is the Pallace of a Gentleman, who proving a Traytor, the State..turned the same into a shambles, and some upper chambers to places of judgement. The fish market lies by this shambles. a1625 J. Fletcher Rule a Wife (1640) iii. 30 I stink like a stall-fish shambles. 1636 R. Basset tr. G. A. de Paoli Lives Rom. Emperors 64 He was called of many Macellinus, of the Latine word Macellum a shambles, or butchery. c. transferred and figurative. ΚΠ 1608 J. Day Humour out of Breath sig. C4^v Venice..tis counted the best flesh-shambles in Italie. 1610 J. Donne Pseudo-martyr Pref. sig. C2^v As..he would make in this Kingdome a spirituall shambles of your soules, by corrupt Doctrines: so..he labours to make a Temporall shambles and market of your bodies, by selling you for nothing, and thrusting you vpon the Ciuill sword. 1843 J. G. Whittier Massach. to Virginia 50 Watching round the shambles where human flesh is sold. 4. a. plural. The place where animals are killed for meat; a slaughterhouse. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > killing of animals > [noun] > slaughter-house flesh housec1000 butchery1340 slaughterhousec1374 flesh-shamblesa1410 fleshhewery1483 shambles1548 slaughtery1648 slaughter-pen1688 shamble1885 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. John x. 1–5 They bee called to their foode, and not to the fleshe shambles to be killed. 1607 B. Jonson Volpone i. i. sig. B^v I..fat no beasts To feede the Shambles . View more context for this quotation 1726 J. Arbuthnot et al. It cannot rain but it Pours 7 A Flock of Sheep that were driving to the Shambles. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge lxxi. 354 He was felled like an ox in the butcher's shambles. 1876 Bulwer-Lytton's Pausanias (ed. 2) i. ii. 49 Savage though the custom, it smells not so foully of the shambles. b. Construed as a singular; also in singular form. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > killing of animals > [noun] > slaughter-house flesh housec1000 butchery1340 slaughterhousec1374 flesh-shamblesa1410 fleshhewery1483 shambles1548 slaughtery1648 slaughter-pen1688 shamble1885 1697 S. Patrick Comm. Exod. (xxx. 8) 598 The vast number of Beasts that were slain..at the Sanctuary..would have made it smell like a Shambles. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth iii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 89 Like the disgusting refuse of a shambles. 1885 M. Bridges Pop. Mod. Hist. 433 Nobles, priests and women were slaughtered like sheep in a shamble. 5. transferred and figurative. a. A place of carnage or wholesale slaughter; a scene of blood. Chiefly plural construed as singular; rarely in singular form. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [noun] > scene of butchery?1552 slaughterhouse1578 shamble1593 Aceldama1607 corpse-factory1919 killing ground1946 killing field1980 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 12 b The Infidell-Romaines..shall inuade thee, and make thy Citty..a shambles of dead bodies. a1634 G. Chapman Bussy D'Ambois (1641) v. 69 If I scape Monsieurs Pothecarie Shops, Foutir, for Guises Shambles. 1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper i. 48 That it may appeare indeed, what bloud-hounds the Papists are, what a Shambles their Church is, consult a grand Witnesse of their own. a1649 W. Drummond Irene in Wks. (1711) 170 The Bodies of Common-wealths are already turned into Skeletons, the Cities into Sepulchres, the Fields into Schambles. a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 33/2 Earth turns an hideous Shamble, a Lake of Blood. 1741 I. Watts Improvem. Mind i. xviii. 295 When the Person or his Opinion is made the Jest of the Mob, or his Back the Shambles of the Executioner. 1794 S. T. Coleridge Fall of Robespierre i. i. 79 I've fear'd him, since his iron heart endured To make of Lyons one vast human shambles. 1868 F. W. Farrar Seekers after God i. iii. 51 A brutal..barbarity often turned a house into the shambles of an executioner. 1901 ‘Linesman’ Words by Eyewitness (1902) ix. 177 What a shambles the deep valley between Inkweloane and Spitz Kop would have been! b. plural. In more general use, a scene of disorder or devastation; a ruin; a mess. Originally U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > [noun] > scene of disorder shamble1926 pantomime1941 dumpster fire2008 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > absence of arrangement > [noun] > a disorderly collection rabblea1398 hotchpotc1405 hotchpotchc1410 mishmashc1475 gaggle?1478 chaos?1550 humble-jumble1550 huddle1587 wilderness1594 lurry1607 hatterc1626 farragoa1637 bumble1648 higgledy-piggledy1659 jumble1661 clutter1666 hugger-mugger1674 litter1730 imbroglio1753 confusion1791 cludder1801 hurrah's nest1829 hotter1834 welter1857 muddle1863 splatter1895 shamble1926 1926 P. H. de Kruif Microbe Hunters iii. iv. 83 Once more his laboratory became a shambles of cluttered flasks and hurrying assistants. 1942 E. Waugh Put out More Flags ii. 150 Alastair learned, too, that all schemes ended in a ‘shambles’ which did not mean, as he feared, a slaughter, but a brief restoration of individual freedom of movement. 1966 M. R. D. Foot SOE in France viii. 184 Helped the commandos to make a thorough shambles of the main dockyard. 1979 Daily Tel. 5 Sept. 6/6 Haiti remains a dictatorship, its economy in a shambles. 6. Mining. See quot. 1819. Also shammel n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > landing- or passing-place shamble1671 passing doors1839 pass-by1883 1671 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 6 2102 A Tin-shaft..which we sink down about a fathom, and then leave a little long square place, termed a Shamble, and so continue sinking from cast to cast. 1819 W. Dickinson Mortimer's Gen. Commerc. Dict. (ed. 2) Shambles, among miners, a sort of niches or landing-places, left at such distances in the adits of mines, that the shovel-men may conveniently throw up the ore from shamble to shamble, till it comes to the top of the mine. 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 174 Shambles, shelves or benches, from one to the other of which successively ore is thrown in raising it to the level above, or to the surface. 7. dialect. plural. ‘The frame of wood that hangs over a shaft-horse in a cart’ (Halliwell 1847). ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > parts of > frame over cart-horse shamble1596 shamble-stave1596 1596 [see shamble-stave n. at Compounds 2]. 1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 257 Having also a head of boards, and shambles over the thills. 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 219. 8. ? A shoal. Perhaps only plural the name of a shoal off Portland Bill (hence Cook's use in quot. 1769). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > body of water > [noun] > shallow place shoal839 shoala1400 bank?1473 undeep1513 shelf1545 flat1550 vadea1552 ford1563 shallow1571 shoaling1574 ebbs1577 shelve1582 bridge1624 ballow1677 shamble1769 sharp1776 poling ground1901 sea-shoal1903 1769 J. Cook Voy. round World (1771) 70 About three miles N.E. from Portland [in the Pacific] are several shoals, which we called the Shambles. a1773 J. Hutchins Hist. Dorset (1774) I. 587 The Shambles, called by Hollingshed the Shingles, is a bank of sand, lying about four miles E. by S. from the Bill [Portland]. 1800 C. Sturt in Naval Chron. (1801) 4 394 Carrying me dead upon the Shambles [off Portland], where the sea was running tremendously high. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. shamble door n. ΚΠ 1889 H. R. Haggard Cleopatra ii. vii No lamb skipping at the shamble doors can be more innocent of its doom than is Queen Cleopatra. shamble-fly n. ΚΠ a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Old Law (1656) iii. 43 Those Shamble flies Which Butchers boyes snap betweene sleepe and waking. shamble-house n. ΚΠ 1846 E. Bulwer-Lytton Lucretia III. ii. xviii. 134 The failure..left the more impatient murderer leisure to..render the Insurances on the life of the latter less open to suspicion than if effected immediately on her entrance into that shamble house. shamble-oozing adj. ΚΠ 1894 E. Lee-Hamilton Sonn. Wingless Hours 102 A Paris gutter of the good old times, Black and putrescent in its stagnant bed, Save where the shamble oozings fringe it red. shambles-blood n. ΚΠ 1772 A. Hunter et al. Georgical Ess. (new ed.) III. v. 169 A compost made of shambles blood and saw-dust. shambles keeping adj. ΚΠ 1559 J. Feckenham in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1709) ii. App. ix. 26 There was no open Flesh eatinge, nor Shambles kepeinge, in the Lent and Daies prohibitid. shamble warden n. ΚΠ 1835 1st Rep. Commissioners Munic. Corporations Eng. & Wales App. ii. 1095 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 116) XXIII. 133 The Shamble Wardens have the inspection of meat, fish and butter. 1835 1st Rep. Commissioners Munic. Corporations Eng. & Wales App. ii. 1370 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 116) XXIII. 133 Two officers, named Shamble Wardens are appointed..to inspect the meat. b. shamble-seeking adj. ΚΠ 1638 G. Daniel Eclog. i. 122 You..might..Scorne These Shamble-seeking birds. shamble-smelling adj. ΚΠ 1603 T. Dekker 1603: Wonderfull Yeare sig. B4 In shamble-smelling roomes. C2. † shamble-hook n. Obsolete a hook for hanging meat upon. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > hook or frame for hanging meat cambrelc1450 gambrel1547 butcher's hook1596 flesh-hook1596 cambren1656 shamble-hook1688 stage1715 meathook1771 progger1818 gamble1831 gallows1866 gammon1874 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 313/2 A Shamble Hook. shamble-meat n. (also shambles-meat) butcher's meat. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > [noun] > meat > butcher-meat butcher's meat1608 shamble-meat1618 dead meat1879 1618 Licence to eat Flesh in Penny Mag. (1836) 5 259 Forbidding them all manner of shamble-meates whatsoever. 1736 F. Drake Eboracum i. vi. 219 This city is as well supplied with all sorts of shambles-meat as most markets in England. 1891 Reports Provinc. (E.D.D.) I mind the time when old people [in Devonshire] said, ‘It's more'n a month since we had any shammel-mate’. shamble-stave n. one of the bars forming ‘shambles’ (sense 7). ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > parts of > frame over cart-horse shamble1596 shamble-stave1596 1596 L. Mascall Bk. Cattell ii. 120 Preparing the cart... Al the shamble staues to be made of good dry and tough ash, which are to beare a burthen from the thyller. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). shamblen.² /ˈʃamb(ə)l/ Etymology: < shamble v.² 1. A shambling gait. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > awkward shailingc1440 shambling1681 slouch1725 slouchinga1764 shamble1826 shail1887 1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey II. iii. iii. 25 His coronation pace degenerated into a strut, and then into a shamble. 1855 A. Bain Senses & Intellect i. iv. 267 The shamble of the elephant. 1881 J. Grant Cameronians I. iii. 34 His once firm and stately stride had given place to what he called ‘a species of half-pay shamble’. 1887 M. E. Wilkins Old Lady Pingree in Humble Romance 53 She..went across the room with a long shamble. †2. slang. (See quot. 1699) Obsolete. ΚΠ 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew at Shamble-legg'd Shake your Shambles, haste, begon. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2018). shambleadj. Etymology: Probably an attributive use of shamble n.¹; the expression shamble legs probably meant originally ‘legs straddling like those of the trestles of a shamble’ (shamble n.¹ 2b). Compare West Frisian skammels (plural of skammel shamble, board on trestles) used in the sense ‘legs, esp. when badly formed’ (Dijkstra Fries. Woordenboek).Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈshamble. rare. Shambling, ungainly, awkward; ill-shaped, wry, distorted; also in combinations. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [adjective] > of legs luttered?a1400 shamble1607 bandy1687 parenthetical1834 1607 G. Wilkins Miseries Inforst Mariage ii. B 4 b A leane fellowe, with sunke eyes, and shamble legges. 1639 J. Taylor Divers Crabtree Lect. 100 He had a cleane Legge and a handsome Foote; but thou hast neither, a very shamble-shinne, and hast a foote of the slovings Last. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Shamble-Legg'd, one that goes wide, and shuffles his Feet about. 1710 S. Centlivre Man's Bewitch'd iii. i. 34 Death, you shamble ham'd Dog! I'll beat your head off. 1777 R. Forbes Ulysses' Answer 24 in Sel. Coll. Sc. Poems Thersites, Wha for's ill-scrappit tongue, An' shamble chafts, got on his back Puss wi' the nine tails hung. 1869 ‘W. Bradwood’ The O.V.H. xii Butchers' ponies, and rough-coated, shamble-kneed cobs, just up from grass. 1897 E. W. Hamilton Outlaws of Marches xxvii. 303 ‘Haud up, ye shammel-shankit brute,’ he continued, as his horse stumbled forward. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2021). shamblev.¹ /ˈʃamb(ə)l/ Etymology: < shamble n.¹ rare. transitive. To cut up or slaughter as in the shambles. †to shamble forth: to cut up and dispose of (a corpse). ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [verb (transitive)] to bathe in bloodc1300 murderc1325 to make larder ofa1330 spend1481 to lick upa1500 slaught1535 butcher1562 wipe1577 slaughter1586 massacre1588 dispeople1596 shamble1601 depeople?1611 mow1615 internecate1623 dislaughter1661 mop1899 pogrom1915 decimate1944 overkill1946 the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > removal of corpse > dispose of corpse [verb (transitive)] > cut up and dispose of to shamble forth1601 the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > cut [verb (transitive)] > cut to pieces to-carvec950 forhewa1000 forcarveOE to-hackc1000 to-hewc1000 to-slivec1050 to-brittenc1175 shredc1275 to-snedc1275 to-race1297 smitec1300 dismember1303 hewa1382 hew1382 to-cut1382 forcutc1386 brit?a1400 splatc1400 to-shredc1405 upshear1430 detrench1470 dispiece1477 thrusche1483 till-hew1487 despiecea1492 rip1530 share?1566 hash1591 shamble1601 becut1630 betrench1656 mincemeat1861 becarve1863 1601 R. Yarington Two Lamentable Trag. ii. vi. sig. E2^v (stage direct.) Merry begins to cut the body... Enter Truth. Ye glorious beames [of the moon]..Why doost thou lend assistance to this wretch, To shamble forth with bolde audacitie His lims, that beares thy makers semblance! 17.. Remonstr. Protstants against Papists in Somers Tracts (1748) II. 248 (bis) As if their Intention were to convert the World, and not to Kill the King, Garble the Parliament, Shamble all good and sober Protestants of every Party. 1868 Ld. Lytton Orval in New Poems II. 355 It was a desperate sortie. The Count. Desperate? ay, They shambled us like sheep. Derivatives Categories » ˈshambled adj. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online September 2018). shamblev.² /ˈʃamb(ə)l/ Etymology: Probably < shamble adj. Compare Frisian skammelje, ‘to walk irregularly, esp. with badly-formed legs’ (Dijkstra). a. intransitive. To go with an awkward ungainly gait, to walk awkwardly or unsteadily, usually with adverb as to shamble along. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > walk awkwardly shail?a1400 scamble1633 shamble1681 trollopa1745 staup1788 shammock?1857 1681 [implied in: J. Dryden Spanish Fryar i. i. 12 By that shambling in his walk, it should be my rich old Banquer, Gomez. (at shambling n.)]. 1690 [implied in: J. Dryden Amphitryon ii. i. 16 One pair of shambling Legs, with two splay Feet. (at shambling adj. 1a)]. 1697 J. Vanbrugh Relapse v. 101 A long, loose, shambling sort of a Horse. 1717 S. Garth in J. Dryden et al. tr. Ovid Metamorphoses xiv. 501 The heedless Lout comes shambling on. 1746 P. Francis tr. Horace in P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Epistles ii. i. 233 Dossennus slip-shod shambles o'er the Scene. a1771 T. Gray Jemmy Twitcher in Gentleman's Mag. (1782) lii. 39 He shambles and straddles so oddly. 1798 M. Pilkington Gentleman's Dict. Painters (new ed.) 791 [Francis Heyman is] easily distinguishable by the large noses and shambling legs of his figures. 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) xx. 208 A shambling pot-boy. 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxiv. 249 Jinks..shambled to a seat, and proceeded to write it down. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxxiv. 327 Who..made a great many shambling bows. 1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset II. xlix. 54 Every morning he shambled across from the deanery to the cathedral. 1880 A. H. Huth Life & Writings H. T. Buckle II. 72 His gait was stooping, and his walk rather shambling. 1902 J. Buchan Watcher by Threshold i. 83 He turned and shambled down the passage. b. of an animal. ΚΠ 1859 Blackwood's Mag. 86 244/2 The bears of the north have scented their quarry—they come near you and nearer, shambling and rolling their bulk. 1878 R. B. Smith Carthage xxi. 439 Each [camel] grunting and grumbling as he shambles along. c. quasi-transitive. To make (one's way) or move (one's feet) shamblingly. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk upon or tread [verb (transitive)] > tread or move (way or feet) awkwardly shamble1846 1846 E. Bulwer-Lytton Lucretia II. ii. vii. 245 The sweep..let himself out, and shambled his way to his crossing. 1859 Habits Good Society vii. 250 Another shambles his feet along the pavement. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹c825n.²1699adj.1607v.¹1601v.²1681
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