'Ramshackle' definitions:

Definition of 'ramshackle'

(from WordNet)
adjective
In deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack" [syn: bedraggled, broken- down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down]

Definition of 'Ramshackle'

From: GCIDE
  • Ramshackle \Ram"shac*kle\ (r[a^]m"sh[a^]k*k'l), a. [Etymol. uncertain.] Loose; disjointed; falling to pieces; out of repair. [1913 Webster]
  • There came . . . my lord the cardinal, in his ramshackle coach. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Ramshackle'

From: GCIDE
  • Ramshackle \Ram"shac*kle\, v. t. To search or ransack; to rummage. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]