ruse

A crafty stratagem; a subterfuge. synonym: wile.

To fall.

To slide down a declivity with a rustling noise.

To give way; fall back; retreat; use tricks for the purpose of escaping.

The use of artifice or trickery; also, a stratagem.

Synonyms Manœuver, Trick, etc. See artifice and stratagem.

A Middle English or dialectal form of roose. Cath. Ang.

An artifice; trick; stratagem; wile; fraud; deceit.

a stratagem of war.

a trick