Shamble

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. 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.

2. A place where butcher's meat is sold. As summer flies are in the shambles. Shak.

3. A place for slaughtering animals for meat. To make a shambles of the parliament house. Shak.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To walk awkwardly and unsteadily, as if the knees were weak; to shuffle along.