Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Scamble

Scamble , intransitive verb

[Compare OD. schampelen to deviate, to slip, schampen to go away, escape, slip, and English scamper, shamble.]

1.
To move awkwardly; to be shuffling, irregular, or unsteady; to sprawl; to shamble.
Some scambling shifts. — Dr. H. More
A fine old hall, but a scambling house. — Evelyn
2.
To move about pushing and jostling; to be rude and turbulent; to scramble.
The scambling and unquiet time did push it out of... question. — Shakespeare

Scamble , transitive verb

To mangle. [Obsolete] — Mortimer