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Definition of Shambles
1. Noun. A condition of great disorder.
2. Noun. A building where animals are butchered.
Generic synonyms: Building, Edifice
Derivative terms: Butcher
Definition of Shambles
1. Noun. a scene of great disorder or ruin ¹
2. Noun. a great mess or clutter ¹
3. Noun. a scene of bloodshed, carnage or devastation ¹
4. Noun. a slaughterhouse ¹
5. Noun. (archaic) a butcher's shop ¹
6. Verb. (third-person singular of shamble) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shambles
1. shamble [v] - See also: shamble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shambles
Literary usage of Shambles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History, Directory & Gazeteer, of the County of York: With Select Lists of by Edward Baines (1823)
"Ltl. shambles Cook John, Thursday market f uthbert Thomas. Skeldergate Dalton
George, Thursday market J Hum Richard, Great shambles Dove Aune, ..."
2. Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the Olden Time: In the Olden by John Fanning Watson (1857)
"High Street Prison and Market shambles. The few facts concerning ... HIGH STREET
PRISON AND MARKET shambles. ..."
3. Diary of the Corporation by Reading (England), J. M. Guilding (1896)
"At this daye William Moore appeared to answere his shambles ... and pulling downe
the shambles and all the building by All Saintes next. ..."
4. The British Quarterly Review by Robert Vaughan, Henry Allon (1869)
"On the north, by the Long Row, near where the Malt Cross then stood, was the
great market for corn and malt, and to the east were the old and new ' shambles ..."
5. The Scottish Jurist: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the House of by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, House of Lords, Parliament, Great Britain (1837)
"That the slaughtering of cattle, and the use of property as shambles within the
... That the proposed shambles could not be placed on the site iu question, ..."
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