Fiddle

Definition of Fiddle

Fid´dle   Pronunciation: fĭd´d'l
n.1.(Mus.) A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit.
2.(Bot.) A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher) with fiddle-shaped leaves; - called also fiddle dock.
3.(Naut.) A rack or frame of bars connected by strings, to keep table furniture in place on the cabin table in bad weather.
Fiddle beetle
(Zool.) a Japanese carabid beetle (Damaster blaptoides); - so called from the form of the body.
Fiddle block
(Naut.) a long tackle block having two sheaves of different diameters in the same plane, instead of side by side as in a common double block.
Fiddle bow
fiddlestick.
- Knight.
Fiddle fish
(Zool.) the angel fish.
Fiddle head
See fiddle head in the vocabulary.
Fiddle pattern
a form of the handles of spoons, forks, etc., somewhat like a violin.
Scotch fiddle
to take a leading or a subordinate part.
v. i.1.To play on a fiddle.
[imp. & p. p. Fiddled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Fiddling .]
Themistocles . . . said he could not fiddle, but he could make a small town a great city.
- Bacon.
2.To keep the hands and fingers actively moving as a fiddler does; to move the hands and fingers restlessy or in busy idleness; to trifle.
Talking, and fiddling with their hats and feathers.
- Pepys.
v. t.1.To play (a tune) on a fiddle.

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