Device
Device noun - A clever often underhanded means to achieve an end.
Usage example: used every device and stratagem he knew to prevent his son's marriage
Fetch
Fetch noun - A clever often underhanded means to achieve an end.
Usage example: his latest fetch to win back his girlfriend smacks of desperation
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Footnotes 1 First discovered in 1841 in the country of Asteriskia are a valuable literary device 2 They'd fetch half a million commas on the black market.
Source: Footnote Fever -
Apparently cows have been known to mount each other while in heat, so much so that someone once invented a device which was glued to a cow's hind quarters and which popped up a little flag when such mating had taken place, as a sign to the farmer that it was time to fetch the bull.
Source: Situational Sexuality
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