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Shamble vs Scamble - What's the difference?

shamble | scamble |

As verbs the difference between shamble and scamble

is that shamble is to walk while shuffling or dragging the feet while scamble is to move awkwardly; to be shuffling, irregular, or unsteady; to sprawl; to shamble.

As a noun shamble

is (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.

shamble

English

Verb

(shambl)
  • 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.

    Synonyms

    * shuffle

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.

    • See also

    * shambles

    scamble

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Verb

    (scambl)
  • To move awkwardly; to be shuffling, irregular, or unsteady; to sprawl; to shamble.
  • * 1662 , , Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 61:
    • "Or if you will say, that there may some scambling shift be made without them "
  • To move about pushing and jostling; to be rude and turbulent; to scramble; struggle for place or possession.
  • *1596 , Shakespeare, King John, act IV scene III
  • *: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.
  • To mangle.
    • (Mortimer)