/ ˈræmʃækl; ˋræmʃækl/

1 .(of buildings, vehicles, furniture, etc.) in a very bad condition and needing repair: a ramshackle house

2 . (of an organization or a system) badly organized or designed and not likely to last very long: The opposition criticized the government's ramshackle economic policies.

"Ramshackle" has nothing to do with rams, nor the act of being rammed, nor shackles. The word is an alteration of "ransackled," an obsolete form. of the verb "ransack," meaning "to search through or plunder."

Example Sentence:
The properties were separated by a ramshackle wooden fence that was just barely held together with chicken wire.