Scamble

//ˈskæmbəl// verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Verb
  1. 1
    To move awkwardly; to be shuffling, irregular, or unsteady; to sprawl; to shamble. intransitive

    "Or if you will say, that there may some scambling shift be made without them […]"

  2. 2
    To move about pushing and jostling; to be rude and turbulent; to scramble; struggle for place or possession. intransitive

    "How easy dost thou take all England up! From forth this morsel of dead royalty, The life, the right and truth of all this realm Is fled to heaven; and England now is left To tug and scamble and to part by the teeth The unowed interest of proud-swelling state."

  3. 3
    To mangle. transitive

    "finding my Wood cut in Patches , and other parts of it scambled and cut before it was at its Growth"

  4. 4
    To squander. transitive

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