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Undercraft :: Undercraft (n.) A sly trick or device; as, an undercraft of authors..

Cut-off :: Cut-off (n.) Any device for stopping or changing a current, as of grain or water in a spout..

Compensator :: Compensator (n.) One who, or that which, compensates; -- a name applied to various mechanical devices..

Extractor :: Extractor (n.) A device for withdrawing a cartridge or spent cartridge shell from the chamber of the barrel.

Faller :: Faller (n.) A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks..

Feeder :: Feeder (n.) A device for supplying steam boilers with water as needed.

Crook :: Crook (n.) An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.

Way :: Way (n.) The means by which anything is reached, or anything is accomplished; scheme; device; plan..

Dodge :: Dodge (v. i.) To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble.

Ney :: Ney (n.) Anything designed or fitted to entrap or catch; a snare; any device for catching and holding.

Point-device :: Point-device (a.) Alt. of Point-devis.

Guide :: Guide (v. t.) A strip or device to direct the compositor's eye to the line of copy he is setting.

Devicefully :: Devicefully (adv.) In a deviceful manner.

Defraud :: Defraud (v. t.) To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a creditor, or the state; -- with of before the thing taken or withheld..

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

Machination :: Machination (n.) That which is devised; a device; a hostile or treacherous scheme; an artful design or plot.

Jar :: "Jar (n.) In deep well boring, a device resembling two long chain links, for connecting a percussion drill to the rod or rope which works it, so that the drill is driven down by impact and is jerked loose when jammed..

Claptrap :: Claptrap (n.) A trick or device to gain applause; humbug.

Hoverer :: Hoverer (n.) A device in an incubator for protecting the young chickens and keeping them warm.

Countercheck :: Countercheck (n.) Any force or device designed to restrain another restraining force; a check upon a check.

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