Chicane /(?)/

Chi·cane

Chicane

n.
  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.
    To shuffle from them by chicane.
    To cut short this chicane, I propound it fairly to your own conscience.
    — Berkeley.
  2. In bridge, the holding of a hand without trumps, or the hand itself. It counts as simple honors. (Card playing)

Chicane

v. i.
  1. To use shifts, cavils, or artifices.