noun. A violin, especially one used to play folk or country music.

noun. A guardrail used on a table during rough weather to prevent things from slipping off.

noun. Nonsensical, trifling matters.

noun. An instance of cheating or swindling; a fraud.

intransitive verb. To play a fiddle.

intransitive verb. To touch or handle something in a nervous way.

intransitive verb. To make unskilled efforts at repairing or improving.

intransitive verb. To meddle or tamper.

intransitive verb. To commit a fraud, especially to steal from one's employer.

intransitive verb. To play (a tune) on a fiddle.

intransitive verb. To alter or falsify for dishonest gain.

phrasal verb. To act foolishly, playfully, or without a clear sense of purpose.

phrasal verb. To waste or squander.

To play upon the fiddle or violin or some similar instrument.

Hence To scrape, as one stretched string upon another.

To play (upon), in a figurative sense.

To move the hands or other objects over one another or about in an idle or ineffective way.

To be busy with trifles; trifle; do something requiring considerable pains and patience without any adequate result.

To play on, in a figurative sense.

To play (a tune) on a fiddle.

noun. A musical stringed instrument of the viol class; a violin. See viol, violin, crowd.

noun. Nautical, a contrivance to prevent things from rolling off the table in bad weather. It is made of small cords passed through wooden bridges and hauled very taut. Same as rack.

noun. In wool-carding, an implement used in Yorkshire, England, for smoothing the points of card-clothing and dislodging dirt from among the teeth.

noun. In an orchestra, to take the part of the first (or second) violinplayer.

noun. Hence— To take a leading (or subordinate) part in any project or undertaking.

noun. In ceramics, a rack in which pieces of ware that have been dipped in liquid glaze are placed to drain.

noun. A piece of wood by which the guy-ropes of a tennis-net are stretched to keep them taut.

intransitive verb. To play on a fiddle.

intransitive verb. 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.

transitive verb. To play (a tune) on a fiddle.

noun. A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit.

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

noun. A rack or frame of bars connected by strings, to keep table furniture in place on the cabin table in bad weather.

noun. a Japanese carabid beetle (Damaster blaptoides); -- so called from the form of the body.

noun. 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.

noun. fiddlestick.

noun. the angel fish.

noun. See fiddle head in the vocabulary.

noun. a form of the handles of spoons, forks, etc., somewhat like a violin.

noun. undefined

noun. to take a leading or a subordinate part.

noun. undefined

noun. Any of various bowed string instruments, often used to refer to a violin when played in any of various traditional styles, as opposed to classical violin.

noun. An adjustment intended to cover up a basic flaw.

noun. fraud

noun. On board a ship or boat, a rail or batten around the edge of a table or stove to prevent objects falling off at sea. (Also fiddle rail)

verb. To play aimlessly.

verb. To adjust in order to cover a basic flaw or fraud etc.

verb. To play traditional tunes on a violin in a non-classical style.

verb. commit fraud and steal from one's employer

"The two ran through songs from Sleep With One Eye Open, their recently released album of traditional bluegrass music, and also took requests from the audience during a section of the show they called "fiddle tune request song.""

corn-stalk fiddle  crowd  crwth  fine as a fiddle  fritter  

to play second fiddle  

bushel  defalcate  doctor  embezzle  fix  

Biddle  Piddle  kiddle  middle  piddle  

accordion  banjo  bugle  cello  cornet  

A string  Amati  Cremona  D string  E string  

fiddle dock  

fiddled  fiddles  fiddling