[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

chicane \chicane"\, v. i. cf. f. chicaner. see chicane, n.
   to use shifts, cavils, or artifices. --burke.
   1913 webster
see also:
chicane 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

chicane \chicane"\, n. f., prob. earlier meaning a dispute,
   orig. in the game of mall f. mail, fr. lgr. ? the game of
   mall, fr pers chaug=an club or bat; or possibly ultimated
   fr. l. ciccus a trible.
   1. the use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away
      attention from the merits of a case or question; --
      specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery;
      chicanery; caviling; sophistry. --prior.
      1913 webster

            to shuffle from them by chicane.      --burke.
      1913 webster

            to cut short this chicane, i propound it fairly to
            your own conscience.                  --berkeley.
      1913 webster

   2. card playing in bridge, the holding of a hand without
      trumps, or the hand itself. it counts as simple honors.
      webster 1913 suppl.
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[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

chicane
     n 1: a bridge hand that is void of trumps
     2: a movable barrier used in motor racing; sometimes place
        before a dangerous corner to reduce speed as cars pass in
        single file
     3: the use of tricks to deceive someone usually to extract
        money from them syn: trickery, chicanery, guile, wile,
         shenanigan
     v 1: defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit
          syn: cheat, chouse, shaft, screw, jockey
     2: raise trivial objections syn: cavil, carp
see also:
trickery chicanery guile wile shenanigan cheat 
chouse shaft screw jockey cavil 
carp 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

28 moby thesaurus words for "chicane":
   artifice, bamboozle, befool, cavil, chicanery, dishonesty,
   double-dealing, feint, flimflam, fool, fraud, furtiveness, gambit,
   gull, hanky-panky, hoax, hoodwink, maneuver, ploy, ruse,
   sharp practice, stratagem, surreptitiousness, trick, trickery,
   underhandedness, victimize, wile

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