Chicane

Part of speech: noun (n.)

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. Prior. To shuffle from them by chicane. Burke. To cut short this, I propound it fairly to your own canscience. Berkeley.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To use shifts, cavils, or artifices. Burke.