 5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
ramshackle
adjective: in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements";
"a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a
tumble-down shack" [syn: {bedraggled}, {broken-down}, {dilapidated},
{tatterdemalion}, {tumble-down}, {unsound}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ramshackle \Ram"shac*kle\ (r[a^]m"sh[a^]k*k'l), adjective [Etymol.
uncertain.]
Loose; disjointed; falling to pieces; out of repair.
There came . . . my lord the cardinal, in his
ramshackle coach. --Thackeray.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ramshackle \Ram"shac*kle\, verb (used with an object)
To search or ransack; to rummage. [Prov. Eng.]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
RAMSHACKLE, adjective Pertaining to a certain order of architecture,
otherwise known as the Normal American. Most of the public buildings
of the United States are of the Ramshackle order, though some of our
earlier architects preferred the Ironic. Recent additions to the
White House in Washington are Theo-Doric, the ecclesiastic order of
the Dorians. They are exceedingly fine and cost one hundred dollars a
brick.
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