intransitive verb. To resort to tricks or subterfuges; use chicanery.

intransitive verb. To trick; deceive.

noun. Chicanery.

noun. A bridge or whist hand without trumps.

noun. A quibble: as, a chicane about words.

noun. In bridge whist, a hand which is void of trumps; it entitles the holder to score simple honors. When the hands of two partners are both void of trumps it is called double chicane.

noun. The art of gaining an advantage by the use of evasive stratagems or petty or unfair tricks and artifices; trickery; sophistry; chicanery.

noun. A game similar to pall-mall, played on foot, in Languedoc and elsewhere, with a long-handled mallet and a ball of hard wood. It is played in an open field, like polo.

To use chicane; employ shifts, tricks, or artifices.

To treat with chicane; deceive; cheat; bamboozle.

noun. 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.

noun. In bridge, the holding of a hand without trumps, or the hand itself. It counts as simple honors.

intransitive verb. To use shifts, cavils, or artifices.

noun. A temporary barrier, or serpentine curve, on a vehicular path, especially one designed to reduce speed.

noun. Chicanery.

verb. To use chicanery, tricks or subterfuge.

verb. To deceive.

verb. raise trivial objections

noun. a bridge hand that is void of trumps

noun. the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

noun. a movable barrier used in motor racing; sometimes placed before a dangerous corner to reduce speed as cars pass in single file

verb. defeat someone through trickery or deceit

"That other honour to our profession, Roker, is well versed in chicane, and knows more of the law, or rather of its abuse, than an honest man would wish to know; but Fisherton is so ignorant that, while his lavish expences continually reduce him to necessities that drive him into bold attempts at robbery, his skill in managing them is so inferior that he is almost always baffled, and has been more than once exposed. '"

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