All 12 Uses
shamble
in
The Name of the Wind
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- Then he started gathering old faerie stories too, legends about bogies and shamble-men.†
p. 80.9 *shamble = walk in an awkward, shuffling way
- A ghost wants revenge, a demon wants your soul, a shamble-man is hungry and cold.†
p. 82.5
- But here they're careful come autumn-time for fear of drawing the attention of shamble-men.†
p. 85.6
- Listen, if tomorrow we pulled into Biren and someone told you there were shamble-men in the woods, would you believe them?†
p. 85.8
- What if a dozen people told you, with perfect earnestness, that shamble-men were out in the fields, eating—†
p. 85.9
- If not shamble-men, what are you afraid of?†
p. 86.1
- I'm big on imps and shamble-men myself.†
p. 245.1
- I was surprised to see people setting up straw-stuffed shamble-men outside their homes.†
p. 503.8
- Despite that, I liked seeing the shamble-men.†
p. 504.1
- We passed an old woman hanging a shamble-man made of oat sheaves.†
p. 507.9
- Some folk were talking about shamble-men.†
p. 519.4
- They would drink and throw their shamble-men into the fires.†
p. 580.6
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)