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Read the Above Lines and Answer the Question that Follow. What is ‘Shamble’? - English 2 (Literature in English)

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There's nobody on the house-tops now...
Just a palsied few at the windows set;
For the best of the sight is, all allow,
At the Shambles' Gate-or, better yet,
By the very scaffold's foot, I trow.

Read the above lines and answer the question that follow.

What is ‘shamble’?

One Line Answer

Solution

Shamble is a slaughter house.

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