1. (n.) A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit.
2. (n.) A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher) with fiddle-shaped leaves; -- called also fiddle dock.
3. (n.) A rack or frame of bars connected by strings, to keep table furniture in place on the cabin table in bad weather.
4. (v. i.) To play on a fiddle.
5. (v. i.) To keep the hands and fingers actively moving as a fiddler does; to move the hands and fingers restlessly or in busy idleness; to trifle.
6. (v. t.) To play (a tune) on a fiddle.
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