rickety

Modifies a noun

• ladder: The only method of boarding the boat below the lock was a rather rickety ladder attached to the left hand wing wall.
• stair: Having climbed the rickety wooden stairs, three men guided us into the thick, deep mud.
• staircase: On inspecting under the bridge, I was amazed to discover that there was a rickety old wooden staircase was still in place!
• cart: I'm writing this from the rickety old cart which is now heading north.
• bridge: Access to these was often only by way of a rickety rope bridge across a ravine.
• fence: I just managed to keep him in sight as he deftly vaulted the rickety wooden fence at the back of the house.

Modifying Another Word

• rather: The only method of boarding the boat below the lock was a rather rickety ladder attached to the left hand wing wall.
• very: We were approaching a very rickety part of the bridge.
• slightly: Very nice little place, and we were seated toward the back on a slightly rickety table for two.
• too: She may pass the next without being dashed to pieces, but she is too rickety to stand the third.

Used with adjective complement

• look: The stable looked rickety, it smelled of animals and had fragile doors and windows.