Synonyms:
violin, fiddle
Meaning: 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
Usage examples
You like to fiddle?" he says.
I used to play the fiddle between 'em, sitting on the capstan.
"Now I shall play my fiddle and you shall sing your hymn, brother.
"It's no use," he said, "I can't fiddle about any more with my motives to-day."
I carried Toby's fiddle, and he played pretty much as he chose all against the organ and the singing.
As soon as the dancing clock struck midnight that Sunday--I was lying under the spinet--I heard Toby's fiddle.
I kicked back on our gunwale as it went under and slipped through that port into the French ship--me and my fiddle.'
I looked after the horses when I wasn't rolling pills on top of the old spinet, while he played his fiddle and Red Jacket sang hymns. I liked it.
I went over all that Antonia had ever told me about his life before he came to this country; how he used to play the fiddle at weddings and dances.
A man told me he was a real Red Indian called Red Jacket, and I followed him into an alley-way off Race Street by Second Street, where there was a fiddle playing.