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shambles
in
Othello, the Moor of Venice
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O, ay; as summer flies are in the shambles, That quicken even with blowing.†
Scene 4.2

Definitions:

(1) (shambles as in: the place is a shambles)
a condition of great disorder
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
In the past, shambles referenced a slaughterhouse (a building used to butcher animals) -- as when Joseph Conrad wrote in The Secret Agent, "I told him that I dreamt of a world like shambles, where the weak would be taken in hand for utter extermination."

Very rarely, shambles is used as a form of the verb shamble to indicate a type of awkward shuffling walk, as in "She shambles when she is nervous."