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ramshackle |
4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Ramshackle \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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Ramshackle \Ram"shac*kle\, v. t. To search or ransack; to rummage. [Prov. Eng.] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: ramshackle adj : 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}, {tumble-down}, {unsound}] From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: RAMSHACKLE, adj 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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