Crossword-Solution: FIDDLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Fiddle | n. | A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit. |
| Fiddle | n. | A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher) with fiddle-shaped leaves; -- called also fiddle dock. |
| Fiddle | n. | A rack or frame of bars connected by strings, to keep table furniture in place on the cabin table in bad weather. |
| Fiddle | v. i. | To play on a fiddle. |
| Fiddle | v. i. | 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. |
| Fiddle | v. t. | To play (a tune) on a fiddle. |
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with FIDDLE (5)
Economic considerations, however, have played second fiddle to political and military upheavals, including the nine-year Soviet military occupation (ended 15 February 1989) and the continuing bloody civil war.
Yonder was the banks and the islands, across the water; and maybe a spark—which was a candle in a cabin window; and sometimes on the water you could see a spark or two—on a raft or a scow, you know; and maybe you could hear a fiddle or a song coming over from one of them crafts.
But if he found something interesting it might force him to be late, and Lori could not tolerate play- ing second fiddle to a computer.
This is my weapon," said he, touching his fiddle, "and withal it is my field and mine acre that raiseth flesh-meat and bread for me: yea, and whiles a little drink." So they rode on together and the man was blithe and merry: and Ralph said to him: "Since we are fellows for a good while, as I suppose, what shall I call thee?" Said he, "Morfinn the Minstrel I hight, to serve thee, fair lord.
The marriage was most unhappy, and the Maestro Grandoni was suspected of using the fiddle-bow as an instrument of conjugal correction.
Quotes with FIDDLE (3)
It was a hurting tune, resigned, a cry of heartache for all in the world that fell apart. As ash rose black against the brilliant sky, Fire's fiddle cried out for the dead, and for the living who stay behind to say goodbye.
Higgledy piggledy, my black hen, She lays eggs for gentlemen. Gentlemen come every day To count what my black hen doth lay. If perchance she lays too many, They fine my hen a pretty penny; If perchance she fails to lay, The gentlemen a bonus pay. Mumbledy pumbledy, my red cow, She’s cooperating now. At first she didn’t understand That milk production must be planned; She didn’t understand at first She either had to plan or burst, But now the government reports She’s giving pi…
... much of poetry in the making is the fiddle with a few items. You lay a word against another and wait. You try another word. And another. Yet another. You wait. You begin again. Listening. Looking. For the elusive inevitable thing which has to arrive before it is recognised. And, like Odysseus, may not be recognised at first.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 15 times in crossword archives (1963–2023).