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Definition of Hambles
1. hamble [v] - See also: hamble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hambles
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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