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Wiktionary
scambleverb
To move awkwardly; to be shuffling, irregular, or unsteady; to sprawl; to shamble.
scambleverb
To move about pushing and jostling; to be rude and turbulent; to scramble.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To Scambleverb
To mangle; to maul.
My wood was cut in patches, and other parts of it scambled and cut before it was at its growth. John Mortimer.
To SCAMBLEverb
Etymology: This word, which is scarcely in use, has much exercised the etymological sagacity of Meric Casaubon; but, as is usual, to no purpose.
Have fresh chaff in the bin,
And somewhat to scamble for hog and for hen. Thomas Tusser.Scambling, out-facing, fashion-mong’ring boys,
That lie, and cog, and flout, deprave and slander. William Shakespeare.That self bill is urg’d, and had against us past,
But that the scambling and unquiet time
Did push it out of further question. William Shakespeare, Henry V.He was no sooner entered into the town but a scambling soldier clapt hold of his bridle, which he thought was in a begging or a drunken fashion. Henry Wotton.
Some scambling shifts may be made without them. More.
Webster Dictionary
Scambleverb
to move awkwardly; to be shuffling, irregular, or unsteady; to sprawl; to shamble
Scambleverb
to move about pushing and jostling; to be rude and turbulent; to scramble
Scambleverb
to mangle
Etymology: [Cf. OD. schampelen to deviate, to slip, schampen to go away, escape, slip, and E. scamper, shamble.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Scamble
skam′bl, v.i. (obs.) to scramble: to sprawl.—v.t. to mangle: to squander.—ns. Scam′bler, a meal-time visitor; Scam′bling, a hasty meal.—n.pl. Scam′bling-days, days in which meat is scarce.—adv. Scam′blingly, strugglingly. [Ety. dub.; prob. related to shamble.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of scamble in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of scamble in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
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