So we arrive at the modern meaning, now defined in the revised entry as: 'Subject to or fraught with physical danger or insecurity; at risk of falling, collapse, or similar accident; unsound, unsafe, rickety', with evidence beginning in 1727, and now continuing down to a nice, typical quotation from 2002 about climbing ...
So we arrive at the modern meaning, now defined in the revised entry as: 'Subject to or fraught with physical danger or insecurity; at risk of falling, collapse, or similar accident; unsound, unsafe, rickety', with evidence beginning in 1727, and now continuing down to a nice, typical quotation from 2002 about climbing ...