\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.

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