Fiddle 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.
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, the itch. (Low)
To play first fiddle, or To play second fiddle, to take a leading or a subordinate part. (Colloq.)
