7 Verbs to Use for the Word contraptions

'Afraid your contraption's gone wrong, old son.

Well, then, buy all the contraptions that are necessary, but don't omit the plain gridirons and frying-pans.

He now believed that his fellow might have been sent by the crew to destroy the "devil-bird," as they undoubtedly considered a contraption that could soar through space as fast as the fleetest condor.

"The next thing," said Bruce, "is to hunt out that infernal contraption which threatens our lives.

"Nothin' would do ye but to be offerin' the contraption for sale, and tellin' each and every that hit'd been used in the Hardwick mill.

Well, he certainly did when he turns over this here neat contraption at a price that was dirt cheap, and which I'd be ashamed to mention to yuh.

He wards off their strokes with enormous brattices of wood, wing-walls of logs bolted together, and such other contraptions as experience teaches.

7 Verbs to Use for the Word  contraptions