0 a device or machine that looks awkward or old-fashioned, especially one that you do not know how to use: --
1 an awkward or old-fashioned looking device or machine --
I am not rushing in to defend the county council on the contraption that they have put forward.
Frightful contraptions were to be seen in the kitchen or dining room.
A great deal of noise is also caused by motor-cycles and other mechanical contraptions.
I hold our liberties too dear not to be deeply concerned about this alien contraption.
If they had put up contraptions like some of the present-day council houses, we should have had no problem in connection with them.
One travels in contraptions that one mounts from decayed, dilapidated stations equipped with no more than a tiny shelter—and for what reason?
It is the kind of contraption which was admirable and something of a wonder 50 years ago, when used for carrying private horse carriages.
They said that this frightful contraption was wheeled aboard belching coal dust and smoke over everything and was most inefficient.
