noun to use shifts, cavils, or artifices.
2. chicane ·add. ·noun in bridge, the holding of a hand without trumps, or the hand itself. it counts as simple honors.
3. chicane ·noun 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.