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That’s a very jury rigged device to get a sense of what might be possible with a conical drum, I haven’t really gone down that avenue yet but waiting to be traveled.

From Forbes • Sep. 24, 2014

I said the problem with that is that it would be a jury rigged kind of arrangement.

From Salon • Feb. 9, 2011

He said further that I felt that it would be important that whatever I did, did not appear to be a jury rigged, specially arranged job for me.

From Salon • Feb. 9, 2011

She lifts high enough to show the stump of the foremast with head-sails jury rigged.

From Blackbeard: Buccaneer by Schoonover, Frank Earle

New parts had been jury rigged out of old.

From The Variable Man by Dick, Philip K.




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