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Definition of Contraptions
1. contraption [n] - See also: contraption
Lexicographical Neighbors of Contraptions
Literary usage of Contraptions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1842 It's my vote that we turn these contraptions—the whole bilin' on em ...
1848 [At the Patent Office, Washington] I seed more Yankee contraptions of one ..."
2. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1891)
"contraptions, subs. (American). —Small articles ; tools ; and so forth. 1KW.
JC NEAI-, Charcoal Sketches. For my part, I can't say as how I see what's to be ..."
3. Americanisms: The English of the New World by Maximilian Schele De Vere (1872)
"... contraptions, a purely fictitious word, denoting new and peculiar things. "
For my part, I can't say as how I see what's to be the end of all them ..."
4. The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon (1921)
"But the world at large took no interest in these strange contraptions, and went
on with a grand theological discussion which to-day causes yawns, ..."
5. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1915)
"Miss Kate T. Onry. who has sold twenty-fire paintings of Hopi Indians to the
Smithsonian Institutu City reared, hampered by all the contraptions of ..."
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