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contraptions
n. (plural of contraption English)
Usage examples of "contraptions".
At its heart was a dark space about big enough for a human face to cover, and on either side of that a couple of queer contraptions against which fingers could be pressed.
The traffic too has changed -- out on the fringe it was human or animal, interspersed with great laboring machines farting smoke, and small overladen contraptions buzzing among them, and lots of bicycles.