rickety ❍ 管家看见中间悬着一轴稀破的古画，两边贴了许多的斗方，六张～的竹椅。(《儒林外史》284) Looking around,the servant saw that on the middle wall they had hung a single tattered old painting with poems pasted on either side,while six rickety bamboo chairs were all the furniture of the room.