tumble-down

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   dilapidated, ramshackle, or in such poor condition that collapse seems likely

   Jim hid overnight in a tumble-down cooper's shop beside the river.

From the verb phrase tumble down. The adjective imagines a neglected building as ready to fall or already partly collapsed; the closed spelling tumbledown is now also common.

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