All whaleboats carry certain curious contrivances, originally invented by the Nantucket Indians, called druggs.

The anchors were curious contrivances, made of some hard wood, very large and cumbrous, the flukes only being tipped with iron.

Instead she placed upon it a stiff, leather affair which puzzled him not a little, and from which dangled two curious contrivances.

Peter's curious contrivances were kept, that they might be shown as an evidence of the way in which we had escaped from the rover.