Makeshift (A)
.A temporary arrangement during an emergency; a device. (The Anglo-Saxon seyft means a division, hence a device.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.