Sc. [Etymol. unknown; ? connected with BAUCH.]
1. An old shoe used as a slipper, or worn down at the heel, which causes the wearer to shamble.
1787. W. Taylor, Scots Poems, 4 (Jam.). Thro’ my auld bachle peep’d my muckle tae.
1868. G. Macdonald, R. Falconer, II. 33. My sins are jist like muckle bauchles upo’ my feet, and winna lat me [come].
2. A shambler, a ne’er-do-well.
1829. Hogg, Sheph. Cal., II. 195. He’ll be but a bauchle in this world and a backsitter in the neist.
