Ramshackle
['ræmʃæk(ə)l]
Definition
(a.) Loose; disjointed; falling to pieces; out of repair.
(v. t.) To search or ransack; to rummage.
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Definition
v.t.=Ransack.
adj. tumble-down: ill-made: out of repair—also Ram′shackled.—n. (Scot.) a careless fellow.—adj. Ram′shackly.
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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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