n. contrivance, device, gadget, mechanism, apparatus, Colloq widget, thingumabob or thingamabob, thingumajig or thingamajig, thingummy, whatsit, doodah, thingy, US gizmo or gismo, Rube Goldberg (invention), whatchamacallit, Colloq Brit gubbins People began to build all sorts of contraptions that they hoped might fly
CONTRAPTION
Meaning of CONTRAPTION in English
Oxford thesaurus English vocab. Английский словарь Оксфорд тезаурус. 2012