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noun

Fiddle n.

(Mus.) A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit.

(Bot.) A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher) with fiddle-shaped leaves; called also fiddle dock.

(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)

To play on a fiddle. "Themistocles... said he could not fiddle, but he could make a small town a great city."

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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Etymology of 'Fiddle'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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