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ransackle, v. Obs. exc. north. dial. Forms: 7 ransacle, 8 -shakle, 9 -s(h)ackle (also ram-). [f. ransack v. + -le.] trans. To ransack.1621 B. Jonson Gipsies Metam. ii. vi, They ha'..ransacled me of every penny. a 1802 Jamie Telfer iv. in Child Ballads IV. 6/1 They..ranshakled the house right weel. 1...
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ramshackled, ppl. a. (ˈræmʃæk(ə)ld) Also 7 ranshacled, 8 -shackled, 9 Sc. -shachled. [Perh. f. ram-, ranshackle ransackle v., as if = ‘wrecked or destroyed by plundering’; but cf. Sc. camshachle, to distort.] = ramshackle a. i.1675 S. Sewall Diary 31 July, A window which was all ranshacled. 1703 ― L...
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