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# rickety

«rickety» in Mova's school dictionary: **Shaky and likely to break or fall apart; weak and loose** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Shaky and likely to break or fall apart; weak and loose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rickety/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a poor house, bed or table that is old and unsafe

### examples

- The rickety bridge creaked under us. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rickety/#x1)
- The old chair was rickety. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rickety/#x2)
- We climbed the rickety ladder to the loft. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rickety/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «rickety» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rickety/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.