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Fiddle   /fˈɪdəl/   Listen
noun
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.)


verb
Fiddle  v. t.  To play (a tune) on a fiddle.


Fiddle  v. i.  (past & past part. fiddled; pres. part. fiddling)  
1.
To play on a fiddle. "Themistocles... said he could not fiddle, but he could make a small town a great city."
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."





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"Fiddle" Quotes from Famous Books



... Jaybird died wid de Whoopin' Cough, De Bluebird died wid de Measles; 'Long come a Nigger wid a fiddle on his back, 'Vitin' Crows fer ...
— Negro Folk Rhymes - Wise and Otherwise: With a Study • Thomas W. Talley
... haven't turned a hair. We are as fit as a fiddle," they exclaimed, and looked anything ...
— Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science, Old Series, Vol. 36--New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 • Various
... sate on a garden gate And a snapdog fared beneath; Careless and free was his mien, and he Held a fiddle-string ...
— Shapes of Clay • Ambrose Bierce
... sound of banjo and fiddle, as one by one the dusky musicians from the cabins ranged themselves along the wall of the big room, which had been cleared of its furnishings, and young feet came hurrying in when the old Virginia reel sounded through, the low rooms, calling ...
— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891 • Various
... Middleton had become calm, he proceeded to enumerate to Mr. Miller the many good qualities of Mr. Wilmot. Said he, "He was a capital feller; allus just so. Lively as a cricket; none of your stuck-up, fiddle-faddle notions. And then he was such a good boarder—not a bit particular what he eat; why, he was the greatest kind of a man—eat corn bread, turnip ...
— Tempest and Sunshine • Mary J. Holmes


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