All 8 Uses
shamble
in
The Odyssey, by Homer (translated by: Butcher & Lang)
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- But as for me I will go to Ithaca that I may rouse his son yet the more, planting might in his heart, to call an assembly of the long-haired Achaeans and speak out to all the wooers who slaughter continually the sheep of his thronging flocks, and his kine with trailing feet and shambling gait.†
Book 1shambling = walking in an awkward, shuffling way
- My dwelling is being devoured and my fat lands are ruined, and of unfriendly men my house is full,—who slaughter continually my thronging flocks, and my kine with trailing feet and shambling gait,—none other than the wooers of my mother, despiteful out of measure.†
Book 4
- There was much wine still a drinking, and still they slew many flocks of sheep by the seashore and kine with trailing feet and shambling gait.†
Book 9 *
- All that dwelt around were her wooers; but Neleus would not give her, save to him who should drive off from Phylace the kine of mighty Iphicles, with shambling gait and broad of brow, hard cattle to drive.†
Book 11
- Now when the lady their mother had borne and nursed them, she carried them to the isle Thrinacia to dwell afar, that they should guard their father's flocks and his kine with shambling gait.†
Book 12
- Forthwith they drave off the best of the kine of Helios that were nigh at hand, for the fair kine of shambling gait and broad of brow were feeding no great way from the dark-prowed ship.†
Book 12
- So spake the keeper of the shambling kine.†
Book 22
- On the eighteenth day we gave thy body to the flames, and many well-fatted sheep we slew around thee, and kine of shambling gait.†
Book 24
Definitions:
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(1)
(shamble as in: she shambled along) to walk in an awkward, shuffling way
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)