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Rule :: Rule (n.) To mark with lines made with a pen, pencil, etc., guided by a rule or ruler; to print or mark with lines by means of a rule or other contrivance effecting a similar result; as, to rule a sheet of paper of a blank book..

Loader :: Loader (n.) One who, or that which, loads; a mechanical contrivance for loading, as a gun..

Fool-happy :: Fool-happy (a.) Lucky, without judgment or contrivance..

Chirogymnast :: Chirogymnast (n.) A mechanical contrivance for exercising the fingers of a pianist.

Jack :: "Jack (n.) A machine or contrivance for turning a spit; a smoke jack, or kitchen jack..

Slur :: Slur (n.) In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them..

Knack :: Knack (n.) A petty contrivance; a toy; a plaything; a knickknack.

Engine :: Engine (n.) Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.

Consult :: Consult (v. t.) To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive.

Poke :: Poke (n.) A contrivance to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences. It consists of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointed forward..

Pitter :: Pitter (n.) A contrivance for removing the pits from peaches, plums, and other stone fruit..

Rheostat :: Rheostat (n.) A contrivance for adjusting or regulating the strength of electrical currents, operating usually by the intercalation of resistance which can be varied at will..

Device :: Device (n.) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.

Alarm :: Alarm (n.) A mechanical contrivance for awaking persons from sleep, or rousing their attention; an alarum..

Artifice :: Artifice (n.) Artful or skillful contrivance.

Drop :: Drop (n.) A contrivance for temporarily lowering a gas jet.

Telltale :: Telltale (n.) A machine or contrivance for indicating or recording something, particularly for keeping a check upon employees, as factory hands, watchmen, drivers, check takers, and the like, by revealing to their employers what they have done or omitted..

Projection :: Projection (n.) The act of scheming or planning; also, that which is planned; contrivance; design; plan..

Hypocaust :: Hypocaust (n.) A furnace, esp. one connected with a series of small chambers and flues of tiles or other masonry through which the heat of a fire was distributed to rooms above. This contrivance, first used in bath, was afterwards adopted in private houses..

Snare :: Snare (n.) A contrivance, often consisting of a noose of cord, or the like, by which a bird or other animal may be entangled and caught; a trap; a gin..

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