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| shambles | |
| 1. n. work done in a poor fashion |  |
| 2. n. a scene of great disorder or ruin | |
| 3. n. a great mess or clutter | |
| This website is a shambles. | |
| 4. n. a scene of bloodshed, carnage or devastation | |
| 5. n. a slaughterhouse | |
| 6. n. (archaic) a butcher's shop | |
| shamble | |
| 1. v. 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. | |
| 2. n. (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. | |
