Word Definition

Fiddle

  1. To play on a fiddle.
  2. A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit.
  3. A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher) with fiddle-shaped leaves; -- called also fiddle dock.
  4. To play (a tune) on a fiddle.
  5. 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.
  6. A rack or frame of bars connected by strings, to keep table furniture in place on the cabin table in bad weather.

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