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jerrybuild

vb. 1 To assemble a project in a hasty, low-quality manner, especially when cheap, low-quality and/or inappropriate materials are used. 2 To assemble a structure in such an unsafe manner that it is doomed to collapse. 3 To repair a structure in one of the above manners.

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Or had history and jerrybuilt growth over six million years turned them into different countries?

As the hall had but recently been invested, the bailey to their right lay cluttered, and jerrybuilt pens were tightly packed with hundreds of cattle, sheep and goats.

Since the bouts of Hebear and Hairyman the cornflowers have been staying at Ballymun, the duskrose has choosed out Goatstown's hedges, twolips have pressed togatherthem by sweet Rush, townland of twinedlights, the whitethorn and the redthorn have fairygeyed the mayvalleys of Knockmaroon, and, though for rings round them, during a chiliad of perihelygangs, the Formoreans have brittled the tooath of the Danes and the Oxman has been pestered by the Firebugs and the Joynts have thrown up jerrybuilding to the Kevanses and Little on the Green is childsfather to the City (Year!