Definitions for: Ramshackle


[adj] in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack"



Webster (1913) Definition: Ram"shac*kle, a. [Etymol. uncertain.]
Loose; disjointed; falling to pieces; out of repair.

There came . . . my lord the cardinal, in his
ramshackle coach. --Thackeray.


Ram"shac*kle, v. t.
To search or ransack; to rummage. [Prov. Eng.]

Synonyms: bedraggled, broken-down, damaged, dilapidated, tatterdemalion, tumble-down, unsound

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