Frail, worn-out, crazy.

Full of cracks or flaws; damaged, impaired, unsound; liable to break or fall to pieces; frail, ‘shaky’. (Now usually of ships, buildings, etc.)

= ramshackle, adj. 2.

dialect. Broken down, dilapidated, infirm; sickly, ailing; = crazy, adj. 1 2.

Rickety, ramshackle, tottering.

Of material things, esp. wooden structures or furniture: unstable; dilapidated, ramshackle.

= palsied, adj.

U.S. Rickety, ramshackle.

= ramshackle, adj. 2.

humorous. Shaky or rickety. Obsolete.

= rickety, adj. (in various senses); unstable; dilapidated, ramshackle. Also figurative.

Old, rickety, dilapidated.

Unsteady, tottering; rickety, shaky, unstable. Cf. cockle, v.3, cockly, adj.2

Esp. of a building or vehicle: loose and shaky, as if ready to fall to pieces; rickety, tumbledown; in a state of severe disrepair.

Shabby; rickety; shaky. Now rare.

Shaky, rickety; ramshackle.

Of furniture, etc.: Loose, rickety. dialect.

Of a structure: Given to shaking by the looseness of its parts; liable to break down or give way; unsound. Of ground: Not firm or solid.

Esp. of a building, structure, or vehicle: = ramshackle, adj. 2.

Unsteady, tottering; rickety, shaky, unstable; = cocklety, adj. Cf. cockle, v.3

figurative. Feeble; liable to collapse. Cf. rickety, adj. 2.

= rickly, adj.

an act of falling over; concrete a toy so weighted that it always takes a position of equilibrium; also attributive inclined to fall down…

Affected with palsy, paralysed. Also figurative: deprived of muscular energy or power of action; rendered impotent; tottering, trembling.

Of a vehicle: rattly, rickety.

Infirm, rickety, shaky. Of a person: Unsteady in gait. (Cf. shackly, adj.)

That has fallen into a state of disrepair; likely to fall apart or break down; rickety, ramshackle.

Scottish (chiefly Orkney). Slovenly, untidy. Also: rickety, ramshackle.

Ramshackle; unsteady, shaky.

colloquial (chiefly British, originally R.A.F. slang). Esp. of an aircraft: rickety, ramshackle; unreliable.