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ramshackled, ppl. a.|ˈræmʃæk(ə)ld|
Also 7 ranshacled, 8 -shackled, 9 Sc. -shachled.
[Perh. f. ram-, ranshackle ransackle v., as if = ‘wrecked or destroyed by plundering’; but cf. Sc. camshachle, to distort.]
= ramshackle a. i.
1675S. Sewall Diary 31 July, A window which was all ranshacled. 1703― Let. 5 Jan., Barn and outhousing ranshackld. 1789Loiterer No. 39. 12 The house itself was..such a ranshackeld old place that it must be pulled down. 1883Amer. Missionary Dec. 367 [The Chinese Wall] a barbaric, ramshackled old thing of a great many centuries.
So ˈramshackling a.
1868Ld. Houghton Let. in Life (1890) II. 196 The house is a ramshackling old place, without a fine room in it. 1951Dylan Thomas Poems (1971) 211 And the tusked, ramshackling sea exults. |