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資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Fiddle \Fid"dle\, n. [OE. fidele, fithele, AS. fi?ele; akin to
D. vedel, OHG. fidula, G. fiedel, Icel. fi?la, and perh. to
E. viol. Cf. {Viol}.]
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. --Ham. Nav. Encyc.
{Fiddle beetle} (Zo["o]l.), 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. --Knight.
{Fiddle bow}, fiddlestick.
{Fiddle fish} (Zo["o]l.), the angel fish.
{Fiddle head}, an ornament on a ship's bow, curved like the
volute or scroll at the head of a violin.
{Fiddle pattern}, a form of the handles of spoons, forks,
etc., somewhat like a violin.
{Scotch fiddle}, the itch. (Low)
{To play} {first, or second}, {fiddle}, to take a leading or
a subordinate part. [Colloq.]