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Definition of Jury-rigged
1. Adjective. Done or made using whatever is available. "The rock served as a makeshift hammer"
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
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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