cabbage together

[Alice Faber]

A request from one of my sister's colleagues:

> On [one of our] teleconference ... a speaker said
> that he had “cabbaged together” some information…… can you or your
> sister track that one down? We were flummoxed. We did find a single
> reference to it on a vintage mustang blog – a person from West Virginia
> wrote in that he had “cabbaged together” an intake manifold…..
>

My google search was slightly more productive, returning 124 hits on
"cabbaged together" ("cabbage together" gives recipes and food blogs!).
The meaning appears to be something akin to "jerry-rigged".

Any ideas?

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