intransitive. To stumble, to walk or move in a shuffling, shambling manner.

To throw out the limbs in a loose and awkward manner in walking; to shamble. Obsolete exc. dialect.

intransitive. To go with an awkward ungainly gait, to walk awkwardly or unsteadily, usually with adverb as to shamble along.

colloquial. intransitive. To walk in a clumsy or ungainly manner; to stride boisterously; to traipse, to tramp; (later also) to go about from…

(See quot. 1788.)

intransitive. To walk with a shambling or unsteady gait; to slouch; to dawdle; to idle about.