Ram"shac*kle (?), a. [Etymol. uncertain.]
Loose; disjointed; falling to pieces; out of repair.
There came . . . my lord the cardinal, in his ramshackle coach.
Thackeray.
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Ram"shac*kle, v. t.
To search or ransack; to rummage.
[Prov. Eng.]
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