ramshackle : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: ramshackle	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for ramshackle
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ramshackle adj in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack" Synonym(s): bedraggled, broken- down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ramshackle \Ram"shackle\, 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.]