noun. One of two or more things of different nature but having the same name or designated by the same vocable.

noun. An ambiguous term; a word susceptible of different significations.

noun. Equivocation.

noun. Alternative form of equivoque.

"The wit of the performance was made to consist in quibble and equivoke, and in the misuse of language, after the fashion, but without the refinement, of Mrs. Partington."