Contraption

Why, I wouldn't know what this contraption is supposed to do.

What do you call that contraption?

An ancient people left a ringed contraption on the forsaken planet. It was supposed to be an entrance to another universe.

What a peculiar contraption! What on earth is that for?

This contraption is complicated to use.

Into each hole, we inserted a small aluminum tube called a spile, tapped it snug with a hammer and hung a sheet metal contraption with a plastic bag on it from the spile.

“Yes, sir, if that was the language of love, I'll eat my hat,” said the blood relation, alluding, I took it, to the beastly straw contraption in which she does her gardening, concerning which I can only say that it is almost as foul as Uncle Tom's Sherlock Holmes deerstalker, which has frightened more crows than any other lid in Worcestershire.