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Definition of Fiddlestick
1. Noun. A bow used in playing the violin.
Definition of Fiddlestick
1. n. The bow, strung with horsehair, used in playing the fiddle; a fiddle bow.
Definition of Fiddlestick
1. Noun. A bow used to play the fiddle. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fiddlestick
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fiddlestick
Literary usage of Fiddlestick
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"fiddlestick. In t lie Great German epic called The Nibelungen-Litd, this word is
used six or eight times for a broadsword. v Hi« ..."
2. The Cabinet of Irish Literature: Selections from the Works of the Chief Poet by Charles Anderson Read, Thomas Power O'Connor (1893)
"fiddlestick, affected at' their sorrow, said to the caliph, "Sire, I know a man
who will undertake to execute the first commission." "How! ..."
3. Biographia Hibernica: A Biographical Dictionary of the Worthies of Ireland by Richard Ryan (1821)
"His pen or his fiddlestick were in continual motion, and yet to little or no
purpose," &c. &c. This character is in a great measure confirmed by his SOD in ..."
4. Lacon; Or Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think by Charles Caleb Colton (1836)
"... but not the fiddlestick; the puppet-show, but not punch. . How happens it that
all men envy us our wealth, but that ho man envies us our health ? ..."
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