Thesaurus: chicane

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1. n. The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry.
2. n. To use shifts, cavils, or artifices.
3. n. a bridge hand that is void of trumps
4. n. a movable barrier used in motor racing; sometimes placed before a dangerous corner to reduce speed as cars pass in single file
5. n. the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
6. v. defeat someone through trickery or deceit
7. v. raise trivial objections
8. The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry. Prior. To shuffle from them by chicane. Burke. To cut short this, I propound it fairly to your own canscience. Berkeley. To use shifts, cavils, or artifices. Burke.
9. The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attentionfrom the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied tolegal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry. Prior.To shuffle from them by chicane. Burke.To cut short this, I propound it fairly to your own canscience.Berkeley.
10. n. a bridge hand that is void of trumps n. a movable barrier used in motor racing; sometimes placed before a dangerous corner to reduce speed as cars pass in single file