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jury rig

n. (alternative spelling of jury-rig English) vb. (alternative spelling of jury-rig English)

Usage examples of "jury rig".

Of course, you could mount a pile in a ship, and figure out some jury rig to convert some of its output into push, but where does that get you?

Despite the short crew and the jury rig, the Milton had made the run from Nikitin to Cinnabar in seventeen days, a week sooner than a vessel in normal commercial service.