WILE(S)
NOUNS
1175 ► CROOK a crooked piece of conduct; a trick, artifice, wile; deceit, guile, trickery → obs.
1315 ► ABET fraud, cunning, wiles → obs.
1581 ► RUSE a trick, stratagem, or wile
1588 ► CRANK a crooked or deceitful way; a deceit, wile, sleight → obs.
1660 ► GAMES tricks, wiles, schemes, manoeuvres
1811 ► PAUK → PAWK a clever, sly way; a trick; a wile → Sc.
1832 ► MONKEYSHINE a trick, prank, antic; a ruse, wile; usually used in plural → US colloq.
1905 ► HAMLIN a wile, a trick → Sc. (Bk.)
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