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Ramshackle

Ram′shac-kle

(răm′shăk-k’l)

,

Adj.

[Etymol. uncertain.]

Loose; disjointed; falling to pieces; out of repair.

There came . . . my lord the cardinal, in his

ramshackle

coach.

Thackeray.

Ram′shac-kle

,

Verb.

T.

To search or ransack; to rummage.

[Prov. Eng.]