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A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit.

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  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 restlessy or in busy idleness; to trifle.
  6. v. t. To play (a tune) on a fiddle.
  7. 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
  8. v. avoid (one's assigned duties)
  9. v. commit fraud and steal from one's employer
  10. v. play the violin or fiddle
  11. v. play on a violin
  12. v. manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination