shauchle

present singular third person shauchles · participle present shauchling · participle past shauchled · past shauchled

1. ScotlandintransitiveTo shamble.

   Besides, I'm not going shauchling down to the Dean Bridge in wet shoes either.”“

   2010, Rebecca West, The Judge, →ISBN

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   Dr Ritchie says that he has seen a man shauchling through the shop when he scarcely knew a plane from a handsaw.

   1856, Debate on the Forbes Mackenzie Act, between the Rev. Dr. Ritchie, of Edinburgh and James H. McGuire, Esq., of Glasgow

   The vision of the Colonel shauchling down the glen (being paralysed upon his right side) an ancient tweed cap pulled over his eyes, a cheroot in the side of his mouth, leaning heavily upon a great silver-mounted walking-stick would not have satisfied a Moffat lady.

   1917, Frederick Watson, Children of Passage, page 120

2. ScotlandtransitiveTo distort or deform.