fiddle

fiddle has 14 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• n.. A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit.
• n.. A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher) with fiddle-shaped leaves; -- called also fiddle dock.
• n.. A rack or frame of bars connected by strings, to keep table furniture in place on the cabin table in bad weather.
• v. i.. To play on a 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.
• v. t.. To play (a tune) on a fiddle.
• 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
• v.. try to fix or mend; "Can you tinker with the T.V. set--it's not working right"; "She always fiddles with her van on the weekend"
• v.. play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly; "Someone tampered with the documents on my desk"; "The reporter fiddle with the facts"
• v.. manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination; "She played nervously with her wedding ring"; "Don't fiddle with the screws"; "He played with the idea of running for the Senate"
• v.. play on a violin; "Zuckerman fiddled that song very nicely"
• v.. play the violin or fiddle