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• (without æ-raising) IPA: /ˈʃæmbəl/, [ˈʃʰæmbəl] ~ [ˈʃʰæmbl̩]
• (æ-raising)
  • (米国発音, Canada) IPA: /ˈʃeə̯mbəl/, [ˈʃeə̯mbəl] ~ [ˈʃeə̯mbl̩]; /ˈʃɛə̯mbəl/, [ˈʃɛə̯mbəl] ~ [ˈʃɛə̯mbl̩]
• 韻: -æmbəl
• ハイフネーション: sham‧ble

名詞

shamble (plural shambles)

1. (mining) 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.

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形容詞

shamble (not comparable)

1. (rare) Shambling, awkward, ungainly; distorted, ill-shapen, wry.

   His awkward stagger is due to his shamble legs.

動詞

shamble (third-person singular simple present shambles, present participle shambling, simple past and past participle shambled)

1. To walk while shuffling or dragging the feet.

   I wasn't too impressed with the fellow, when he shambled in unenthusiastically and an hour late.

   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 64, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 328:

     The old black, not in any very high glee at having been previously roused from his warm hammock at a most unseasonable hour, came shambling along from his galley, for, like many old blacks, there was something the matter with his knee-pans, which he did not keep well scoured like his other pans; [...]

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• hambles