Word Meanings - JERRY-BUILT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Built hastily and of bad materials; as, jerry-built houses.

JERRY-BUILT
Built hastily and of bad materials; as, jerry-built houses.
BUILT
Shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a ship. Dryden.
HASTILY
1. In haste; with speed or quickness; speedily; nimbly. 2. Without due reflection; precipitately; rashly. We hastily engaged in the war. Swift. 3. Passionately; impatiently. Shak.
JERRY-BUILDER
A professional builder who erects cheap dwellings of poor materials and unsubstantial and slovenly construction.
ICE-BUILT
1. Composed of ice. 2. Loaded with ice. "Ice-built mountains." Gray.
TOM AND JERRY
A hot sweetened drink of rum and water spiced with cinnamon, cloves, etc., and beaten up with eggs.
OVERBUILT
Having too many buildings; as, an overbuilt part of a town.
SEA-BUILT
Built at, in, or by the sea.
CLINCHER-BUILT
See CLINKER-BUILT
CARVELBUILT
Having the planks meet flush at the seams, instead of lapping as in a clinker-built vessel.
FRIGATE-BUILT
Built like a frigate with a raised quarter-deck and forecastle.
CLOUD-BUILT
Built of, or in, the clouds; airy; unsubstantial; imaginary. Cowper. So vanished my cloud-built palace. Goldsmith.
HIGH-BUILT
Of lofty structure; tall. "High-built organs." Tennyson. The high-built elephant his castle rears. Creech.
AIR-BUILT
Erected in the air; having no solid foundation; chimerical; as, an air-built castle.
CLINKER-BUILT
Having the side planks so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like clapboards on a house. See Lapstreak.