abattoir, butchery, shambles, slaughterhouse
(noun) a building where animals are butchered
shambles
(noun) a condition of great disorder
Source: WordNet® 3.1
shambles (plural shambles)
work done in a poor fashion
a scene of great disorder or ruin
a great mess or clutter
a scene of bloodshed, carnage or devastation
a slaughterhouse
(archaic) a butcher's shop
shambles
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of shamble
Source: Wiktionary
Sham"ble, n. Etym: [OE. schamel a bench, stool, AS. scamel, sceamol, a bench, form, stool, fr. L. scamellum, dim. of scamnum a bench, stool.]
1. (Mining)
Definition: 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. pl.
Definition: A place where butcher's meat is sold. As summer flies are in the shambles. Shak.
3. pl.
Definition: A place for slaughtering animals for meat. To make a shambles of the parliament house. Shak.
Sham"ble, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Shambled; p. pr. & vb. n. Shambling.] Etym: [Cf. OD. schampelen to slip, schampen to slip away, escape. Cf. Scamble, Scamper.]
Definition: To walk awkwardly and unsteadily, as if the knees were weak; to shuffle along.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
4 April 2025
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
