The Collaborative International Dictionary
Equivoke
Equivoque \Eq"ui*voque\, Equivoke \Eq"ui*voke\, n. [F.
An ambiguous term; a word susceptible of different significations.
--Coleridge.An equivocation; a guibble.
--B. Jonson.
Wiktionary
equivoke
n. (alternative form of equivoque English)
Usage examples of "equivoke".
As we look along the line of the British dramatists for the last hundred years we shall find no parallel to his felicity in the use of comic inversion and equivoke, till we come to Gilbert.
Marian, arrayed as a boy, and pretending to be her brother Walter, has been present at this combat, as a spectator, and a sparkling scene of equivoke, mischief, and sentiment ensues between Marian and Robin.