·add. ·noun A professional builder who erects cheap dwellings of poor materials and unsubstantial and slovenly construction.
·noun One who builds; one whose occupation is to build, as a carpenter, a shipwright, or a mason. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·add. ·adj Flimsy; jerry-built. ...
The old rating for a cooper. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
Synonymous with naval constructor. ...
·adj Built hastily and of bad materials; as, jerry-built houses. ...
A henpecked husband: from a celebrated character in one of Mr. Foote's plays, representing a man gov...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
·add. ·- A hot sweetened drink of rum and water spiced with cinnamon, cloves, ·etc., and beaten up w...