contraption

UK /kənˈtɹæp.ʃən/ US /kənˈtɹæp.ʃən/
noun 2

Definitions

noun

1

A machine that is complicated and precarious.

2

Any object.

“Yes, sir, if that was the language of love, I'll eat my hat,” said the blood relation, alluding, I took it, to the beastly straw contraption in which she does her gardening, concerning which I can only say that it is almost as foul as Uncle Tom's Sherlock Holmes deerstalker, which has frightened more crows than any other lid in Worcestershire.

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