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To go at the easy gait called an amble; -- applied to the horse or to its rider.

A horse or a person that ambles.

us, including the raspberry and blackberry. Hence: Any rough, prickly shrub. The thorny brambles, and embracing bushes. Shak.

The bramble, or a collection of brambles growing together. He jumped into a bramble bush And scratched out both his eyes. Mother Goose.

A net to catch birds.

Overgrown with brambles. Forlorn she sits upon the brambled floor. T. Warton.

See Camlet.

A hand [Slang & Obs.] "We clap our fambles." Beau. & Fl.

To lose or squander by gaming; -- usually with away. "Bankrupts or sots who have gambled or slept away their estates." Ames.

One who gambles.

To hamstring. [Obs.]

To make a preamble to; to preface; to serve as a preamble. [R.] Feltham. Milton.

eterminate object in view; to roam carelessly or irregularly; to rove; to wander; as, to ramble about the city; to ramble over the world. He that is at liberty to ramble in perfect darkness, what is his liberty better than if driven up and down as a bubble by the wind Locke.

One who rambles; a rover; a wanderer.

To move awkwardly; to be shuffling, irregular, or unsteady; to sprawl; to shamble. "Some scambling shifts." Dr. H. More. "A fine old hall, but a scambling house." Evelyn.

1. One who scambles.

To clamber with hands and knees; to scrabble; as, to scramble up a cliff; to scramble over the rocks.

Eggs of which the whites and yolks are stirred together while cooking, or eggs beaten slightly, often with a little milk, and stirred while cooking.

One who scrambles; one who climbs on all fours.

A place where butcher's meat is sold. As summer flies are in the shambles. Shak.