Rusenoun
A turning or doubling back, especially of animals to get out of the way of hunting dogs.
Stratagemnoun
A tactic or artifice designed to gain the upper hand, especially one involving underhanded dealings or deception.
Rusenoun
An action intended to deceive; a trick.
Stratagemnoun
An artifice or trick in war for deceiving the enemy; hence, in general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination.
‘Fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils.’; ‘Those oft are stratagems which error seem,Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.’;
Rusenoun
(uncountable) Cunning, guile, trickery.
Stratagemnoun
a maneuver in a game or conversation
Ruseverb
(intransitive) To deceive or trick using a ruse.
Stratagemnoun
an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade;
‘his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track’;
Ruseverb
Of an animal: to turn or double back to elude hunters or their hunting dogs.
Rusenoun
An artifice; trick; stratagem; wile; fraud; deceit.
Rusenoun
a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture)
