Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Ramshackle \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.

Ramshackle \Ram"shac*kle\, v. t.
   To search or ransack; to rummage. [Prov. Eng.]

Source : WordNet®

ramshackle
     adj : in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements";
           "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a
           tumble-down shack" [syn: {bedraggled}, {broken-down}, {dilapidated},
            {tatterdemalion}, {tumble-down}, {unsound}]