Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Contraptions
subs. (American).—Small articles; tools; and so forth.
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1838. J. C. NEAL, Charcoal Sketches, ‘Dilly Jones.’ For my part, I can’t say as how I see what’s to be the end of all of their new-fangled CONTRAPTIONS.
