Crossword clues for shambling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shamble \Sham"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Shambled; p. pr. & vb. n. Shambling.] [Cf. OD. schampelen to slip, schampen to slip away, escape. Cf. Scamble, Scamper.] To walk awkwardly and unsteadily, as if the knees were weak; to shuffle along.
Shambling \Sham"bling\, a. Characterized by an awkward, irregular pace; as, a shambling trot; shambling legs.
Shambling \Sham"bling\, n. An awkward, irregular gait.
Wiktionary
Who walks while dragging or shuffle the feet. n. An awkward, irregular gait. v
(present participle of shamble English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "shambling".
The Splin-terscat led, his brownish quilled body shambling through brush and into grasses, under brambles and over logs as if they were all one, a single obstacle that required the same amount of effort to surmount.
The Splinterscat led, his brownish quilled body shambling through brush and into grasses, under brambles and over logs as if they were all one, a single obstacle that required the same amount of effort to surmount.
First she showed herself to the two children who were last in line behind the shambling Tallman, cutting them away from the others and sending them wandering down a side corridor.
But the riders spurred their mounts to a shambling lope for the last few yards, to draw up at the hitching rack with as much of a flourish as possible.
This, acting on my imagination, had supplied namelessly sinister qualities to the indeterminate face and robed, shambling form beneath it.
She was rewarded by a slap that half-stunned her, and Olmec quickened his pace to a shambling run.
Now he was shambling along the verge, this way and that, in the lolloping, loose-limbed gait of the crack addict.
From the lurkers, van Liesvelt steps forward, a big shambling bear-shape that carries his familiar grin.
Not giant paramecia or walking starfish or great shambling blue-and-orange monsters.
He nevertheless reminded Floyt of a sleepy aardvark shambling around on its hind legs.
Peeking, Amber saw three bandits walking, or one shambling, toward her hiding place.
Besides this there are all manner of little musical blinkings and shamblings and whinings, the least hint of which from the orchestra at any moment instantly brings Mimmy to mind, whether he is on the stage at the time or not.
Crouching, crawling, Murdo picked his way among the chests and caskets, praying he would know the lance when he found it, all the time working his way slowly towards the back of the tent where he discovered a shambling mound of hastily-stored loot taken from the crusaders.
Though she could not stop even a tenth of the shambling shapes, she had now broken so many of them that the unbound sand clogged the approaches to the tunnel.
Just as the Wooldee drew even with the deputy, a man coming from the other direction failed to avoid the shambling creatures dipsomaniacal lurches.