Stratagem /(?)/

Strat·a·gem

Stratagem

n.
  1. 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.