shambles
ˈʃæmbəlz-
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shambles
a building where animals are butchered -
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shambles
a condition of great disorder
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Shambles
sham′blz stalls on which butchers exposed their meat for sale, hence a flesh-market: a slaughter-house.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary A.S. scamel (Ger. schämel), a stool—Low L. scamellum, for L. scabellum, dim. of scamnum, a bench.
West Virginia University’s once-proud football team has slipped into shamble status. bdtonline.com
West Virginia University's once-proud football team has slipped into shamble status. theintermountain.com
WVU has fallen into shambles . theintermountain.com
Syria's civil war leaves its cities, economy and cultural heritage in shambles . foxnews.com
Jets' receiving unit in shambles . espn.go.com
Risch: Obama's Foreign Policy 'In Shambles '. boiseweekly.com
Iran policy in shambles . heraldnet.com
Rotation in a shambles . heraldnews.com
Editor's Viewpoint: Offers shambles has no quick fix. belfasttelegraph.co.uk
University's shambles can't be repeated. belfasttelegraph.co.uk
Her Staten Island neighborhood is in shambles. jla.com
He has inherited an economy in shambles and on the brink of a severe recession. blog.al.com
Zombies shamble down Front Street North during the 2011 Downtown Zombie Walk. issaquahpress.com
Forget "The Walking Dead": Horror classic Zombie shambles through the Roxie. sfbg.com
The shambles in the United Church of Christ -- and America. spectator.org
Nick dropped like an ox struck down in the shambles. "With Links of Steel" by
Did a leaf rustle, we started; did a shambling shape in the gloom whine for alms, we made ready for onset. "Helmet of Navarre" by
Garth shambled sullenly on. "The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance" by
LOOKED UP TO SEE A SHABBY, SHAMBLING, OLDISH MAN COMING AROUND THE SIDE OF THE HOUSE. "McClure's Magazine, March, 1896, Vol. VI., No. 4." by
It was a horrid business, and the place was known as Shambles Camp. "The Worst Journey in the World, Volumes 1 and 2" by
As we approached the door a man got up from a bench and shambled away. "The Inner Shrine" by
The dead and injured, smashed and broken by the shells, littered the summit till it was a bloody, reeking shambles. "London to Ladysmith via Pretoria" by
Mose just then shambled past the window, and Ford sat down to wait until the cook was safe in the kitchen. "The Uphill Climb" by
At his bidding the shoulders and trunk, and lastly the legs of a slouching shambling man of forty-eight or fifty entered the room. "The Just and the Unjust" by
The city was a shambles; every man, woman, or child had been put to the sword. "The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay" by
To fly from this tussle of foes,
The shambles, the charnel, the wrinkle!
To dwell in yon dribble of dew
On the cheek of your sovereign rose,
And live the young life of a twinkle.
Poor fool, to think he might atone!
He sees in a mist a fast-shut door.
Shambling and blear-eyed and alone
He goes, and darkness covers him,
Who saw the glory and the gleam.
Blow over the western bay:
The sunshine is gone from the desolate girl,
And before is the doomster-day,
And the saw-dust red with the heart's-blood shed
In the shambles of Fotheringay.
Like a flock of shambled sheep?
Then the Yankee grit and brain
Must be dead or gone to sleep,
And our sailors’ gallant story of a hundred years of glory
Let us sell for a song, selling cheap!
A reeking shambles all impossible,
Yet luring on the nations near and far
To that red end? Arise, ye dead, and tell
How in our hate we hate no less than ye,
And in our love love not more tenderly.
I was cruel and fierce with despair; I was naked and bound;
was stricken: and Beauty returned through the shambles of night;
In the faces of men she returned; and their triumph I found.