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Meaning of TUMBLE-DOWN

Pronunciation:  'tumbul `dawn

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [adj]  in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack"
 
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 Synonyms: bedraggled, broken-down, damaged, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, unsound
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Tum"ble-down`\, a.
Ready to fall; dilapidated; ruinous; as, a tumble-down house.
[Colloq.]
 

 

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