Shamble /(?)/

1. 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. (Mining)
2. A place where butcher's meat is sold.

   As summer flies are in the shambles.

3. A place for slaughtering animals for meat.

   To make a shambles of the parliament house.

imp. & p. p. Shambled; p. pr. & vb. n. Shambling

1. To walk awkwardly and unsteadily, as if the knees were weak; to shuffle along.