Old
Old adjective - Being of advanced years and especially past middle age.
Rickety and old are semantically related. in tumbledown topic. In some cases you can use "Rickety" instead an adjective "Old".
Rickety
Rickety adjective - Inclined to shake as from weakness or defect.
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Although old and rickety it's perfectly functional.
Source: Rope Bridge - Aside from being Darker and Edgier, Mass Effect 2 gave us a dose of this trope with the Afterlife nightclub on Omega, an old and rickety space station that's practically the capital of the galactic underworld.
Source: Cyber Punk Is Techno -
Easter Egg Shazza's old, rickety Jeep from Ty 1 has cameos in TY 2 and TY 3 as an old hunk of scrap metal.
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