Definition of Hambles

1. Verb. (third-person singular of hamble) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hambles

1. hamble [v] - See also: hamble

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hambles

hamartophobia
hamate
hamate bone
hamate fracture
hamated
hamates
hamathecia
hamathecium
hamatum
hamaul
hamauls
hamaxophobia
hambergite
hamble
hambled
hambles (current term)
hambling
hambone
hamboned
hambones
hamboning
hamburger
hamburger bun
hamburger roll
hamburger steak
hamburgerlike
hamburgerology
hamburgers
hamburgs
hame

Literary usage of Hambles

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Domestic Medicine; Or, A Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases by by William Buchan (1798)
"... at every thing which comes from the /hambles. Who can bear the thought of eating meat which has been blown up with air from the lungs of a dirty fellow, ..."

2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1875)
"hambles in Istria, Dalmatia, and Montenegro ; by EHR 8vo. 1875 (BH de Bicci, Esq.). Queen Charlotte Islands, a narrative of Discovery and Adventure in the ..."

3. The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: Translated Out of by Robert M. Hartley, American Bible Society, Wightman family (1875)
"... yj Whatsoever is sold in the -hambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience' sake: 20 For the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof. ..."

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