figurative. ‘To join awkwardly or coarsely together’ (Johnson); to patch clumsily or botch up. Obsolete.

transitive. To make up by joining pieces together as in patchwork; esp. to put together hastily or in a makeshift manner. Also figurative.

transitive. To put together hastily or clumsily; to botch, tinker, or patch up. literal and figurative.

figurative and in figurative contexts. transitive. To construct or compose (something non-physical, esp. a text) in a clumsy or unskilful manner…

intransitive. To put together clumsily, to patch up; = clamper, v.1

To put together or join roughly or clumsily.

to stitch up v. transitive. (See also 5.) To make or put together by sewing; sometimes with implication of hasty or inferior work. Also figurative.

An error for bodge, v. (see quot. 1629 at bodge, v. 1b for the correct reading), defined by N.E.D. (1888) as ‘to put together clumsily’.

transitive. To cobble together, patch up; = to fake up 2 at phrasal verbs. Now rare or merged in sense 7b.