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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Contraption \Con*trap"tion\, n.
A contrivance; a new-fangled device; -- used scornfully.
[Colloq. or Dial.] -- {Con*trap"tious}, a.
We all remember some of the extraordinary contraptions
which have been thus evolved and put upon the market.
--F. M. Ware.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
contraption
n : a device that very useful for a particular job [syn: {appliance},
{contrivance}, {convenience}, {gadget}, {gizmo}, {widget}]
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