fiddle head

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fiddle head - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Fiddle \Fid"dle\ (f[i^]d"d'l), n. [OE. fidele, fithele, AS.
     fi[eth]ele; akin to D. vedel, OHG. fidula, G. fiedel, Icel.
     fi[eth]la, and perh. to E. viol. Cf. Viol.]
     1. (Mus.) A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a
        violin; a kit.
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     2. (Bot.) A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher) with fiddle-shaped
        leaves; -- called also fiddle dock.
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     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.
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     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. --Knight.
  
     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.]
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