SHAMBLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shambling mean? 

• SHAMBLING (noun)
  The noun SHAMBLING has 1 sense:

1. walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet

  Familiarity information: SHAMBLING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHAMBLING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

shamble; shambling; shuffle; shuffling

Context example:

from his shambling I assumed he was very old

Hypernyms ("shambling" is a kind of...):

walk; walking (the act of traveling by foot)

Derivation:

shamble (walk by dragging one's feet)

 Context examples 

The shambling figure, and the scanty great-coat, were not to be mistaken.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The great head drooped more and more under its tree of horns, and the shambling trot grew weak and weaker.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

He ran once, but the long gown clogged him so that he slowed down into a shambling walk, and finally plumped into the heather once more.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An instant afterwards there appeared a little wizened fellow with a cringing manner and a shambling style of walking.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With him came Aylward and Hordle John, armed as of old, but mounted for their journey upon a pair of clumsy Landes horses, heavy-headed and shambling, but of great endurance, and capable of jogging along all day, even when between the knees of the huge archer, who turned the scale at two hundred and seventy pounds.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)