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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 799 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SHAMBLES , a slaughter-See also:

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house, a See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place where butchers kill animals for domestic See also:

food, an " See also:

ABATTOIR (from abatire, to strike down)

abattoir." The word in the singular means properly a See also:

BENCH (an O.E. and Eng. form of a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Bank, Dan. baenk and the Eng. doublet " bank ")

bench or See also:

STALL (0. Eng. steall, stael, cf. Du. stal, Ger. and Swed. Stall, a common Teutonic word for a place, station, place for standing in; the root is the Indo-European std–, to stand, seen also in Latin stabulum, Greek vraO bs, and in stallion, an entire hors

stall on which butchers display their See also:

MEAT

meat for See also:

sale in a See also:

MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

market, and appears in O. Eng. fot-scamel, See also:

FOOT

foot-See also:

STOOL

stool. It represents the La. scamellum, diminutive of scamnum, step, bench; the See also:

root is seen in Gr. QKrtIrreev,• to prop, cf. " See also:

SCEPTRE

sceptre." The distinct word " shamble," meaning to walk awkwardly, is to be traced to the O. Du. schampelen, to stumble, an See also:

ADAPTATION (from Lat. adaptare. to fit to)

adaptation of O. Fr. escamper, to decamp (See also:

LAT

Lat. ex, out of, and campus, See also:

field). The same See also:

French word has given the See also:

ENGLISH

English " See also:

SCAMP

scamp," a worthless See also:

RASCAL

rascal, a See also:

ROGUE

rogue, vagabond.

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