Definition of Jury-rigged

1. Adjective. Done or made using whatever is available. "The rock served as a makeshift hammer"

Exact synonyms: Improvised, Makeshift
Similar to: Impermanent, Temporary
Derivative terms: Makeshift

Definition of Jury-rigged

1. Verb. (past of jury-rig) ¹

2. Adjective. improvised from whatever is available ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jury-rigged

jurisprudentially
jurisprudents
jurist
juristic
juristical
juristically
juristics
jurists
jurkat cells
juror
jurors
jurour
jurours
jury
jury-rig
jury-rigged (current term)
jury-rigging
jury-rigs
jury box
jury boxes
jury duty
jury is out
jury mast
jury nullification
jury panel
jury pool
jury pools
jury rig
jury rigs
jury system

Literary usage of Jury-rigged

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The reader's handbook of allusions, references, plots and stories by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1882)
"... "jury-rigged," ie rigged for the nonce (jour-y, ... been Bent to sea In a hurry, they were little better than jury-rigged, and we uro now boina put Into ..."

2. The Jurist by Great Britain Courts (1860)
"... "possibly have a bias," when we consider the numerous occasions which occur of catching the popular breeze, and of sailing before it ("jury- rigged" or ..."

3. The reader's handbook of allusions, references, plots and stories by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1880)
"... it is completed is called "jury- shaped" or " jury-rigged," ie rigged for the nonce {Jour-y, " pro tempore") ; while at sea, she is completed, ..."

4. A Glossary of Obscure Words and Phrases in the Writings of Shakspeare and by Charles Mackay (1887)
"... mast that has gone by the board ; jury-rigged, a ship rigged temporarily and as a make-shift for the regular rigging that has cither been carried away, ..."

5. The Works of A. Conan Doyle by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
"Had I not been jury-rigged, with one of my spars shot away, I should have dearly loved to have strapped on my hanger and come with you to smell gunpowder ..."

6. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"The Crescent and Castor had beeu dismasted in the former engagement and were jury- rigged in a very make-shift manner; the Castor had only a prize crew on ..."

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