ramshackle

4 definitions found

ramshackle - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Ramshackle \Ram"shac*kle\ (r[a^]m"sh[a^]k*k'l), a. [Etymol.
     uncertain.]
     Loose; disjointed; falling to pieces; out of repair.
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           There came . . . my lord the cardinal, in his
           ramshackle coach.                        --Thackeray.
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  Ramshackle \Ram"shac*kle\, v. t.
     To search or ransack; to rummage. [Prov. Eng.]
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ramshackle - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  ramshackle
      adj 1: in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled
             tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old
             pier"; "a tumble-down shack" [syn: bedraggled, broken-  down
             , derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle,
             tatterdemalion, tumble-down]

ramshackle - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  35 Moby Thesaurus words for "ramshackle":
     battered, beat-up, beaten up, broken-down, crumbling, decrepit,
     derelict, dilapidated, doddering, flimsy, groggy, in disrepair,
     in ruins, insubstantial, jerry-built, neglected, ricketish,
     rickety, rocky, ruined, ruinous, run-down, shaky, slummy, spidery,
     spindly, teetering, teetery, tottering, tottery, tumbledown,
     unstable, unsteady, unsubstantial, wobbly