A fiddle is a violin, but the word is used either colloquially or to indicate a folk instrument. The Australian composer Percy Grainger, who objected to the use of words of Latin origin, used the word fiddle for violin, middle fiddle for viola and bass fiddle for cello, as part of his eccentric vocabulary of ‘blue-eyed English’.

late 14c., "play upon a fiddle," from fiddle (n.); the figurative sense of "to act nervously, make idle movements, move the hands or something held in them in an idle, ineffective way&q [..]

"stringed musical instrument, violin," late 14c., fedele, fydyll, fidel, earlier fithele, from Old English fiðele "fiddle," which is related to Old Norse fiðla, Middle Dutch vedele [..]

to play a stringed instrument, or the stringed instrument itself.

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To dream of a fiddle, foretells harmony in the home and many joyful occasions abroad. See Violin.   

Verb. To cheat. Noun. A fraud or cheat. {Informal}

(n) bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow(v) avoid (one� [..]

A generic term for any string instrument played with a bow.

Fitting on a table to keep mess utensils in place in bad weather.

A small rail on tables and counters used to keep objects from sliding off when the vessel rolls and pitches.

a lip around horizontal surfaces in the living or working areas of a vessel, to stop objects falling or sliding off in a seaswell

a small rail on tables and counters used to keep objects from sliding off when heeled or in heavy seas

A small rail on tables and counters used to keep objects from sliding off when the vessel rolls and pitches.