Definition of "scamble"

scamble

/ˈskæmbəl/

verb
third-person singular simple present scambles, present participle scambling, simple past and past participle scambled
1. (intransitive) To move awkwardly; to be shuffling, irregular, or unsteady; to sprawl; to shamble.
  Quotations
  "Or if you will say, that there may some scambling shift be made without them […] "
  1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 61
2. (intransitive) To move about pushing and jostling; to be rude and turbulent; to scramble; struggle for place or possession.
  Quotations
  How easy dost thou take all England up!From forth this morsel of dead royalty,The life, the right and truth of all this realmIs fled to heaven; and England now is leftTo tug and scamble and to part by the teethThe unowed interest of proud-swelling state.
  1596, Shakespeare, King John, act IV scene III
3. (transitive) To mangle.
  Quotations
  finding my Wood cut in Patches , and other parts of it scambled and cut before it was at its Growth
  1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], published 1708
4. (transitive) To squander.