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Meaning of rickety

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  rickety
      adj 1: inclined to shake as from weakness or defect; "a rickety
             table"; "a wobbly chair with shaky legs"; "the ladder
             felt a little wobbly"; "the bridge still stands though
             one of the arches is wonky" [syn: {rickety}, {shaky},
             {wobbly}, {wonky}]
      2: affected with, suffering from, or characteristic of rickets;
         "rickety limbs and joints"; "a rachitic patient" [syn:
         {rickety}, {rachitic}]
      3: lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality; "a feeble
         old woman"; "her body looked sapless" [syn: {decrepit},
         {debile}, {feeble}, {infirm}, {rickety}, {sapless}, {weak},
         {weakly}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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