Found 1 hit - Term: to play second fiddle, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
fiddle \fid"dle\ fi^d"d'l, n. oe. fidele, fithele, as.
fiethele; akin to d. vedel, ohg. fidula, g. fiedel, icel.
fiethla, and perh. to e. viol. cf. viol.
1. mus. a stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a
violin; a kit.
1913 webster
2. bot. a kind of dock rumex pulcher with fiddle-shaped
leaves; -- called also fiddle dock.
1913 webster
3. naut. a rack or frame of bars connected by strings, to
keep table furniture in place on the cabin table in bad
weather. --ham. nav. encyc.
1913 webster
fiddle beetle zool., a japanese carabid beetle damaster
blaptoides; -- so called from the form of the body.
fiddle block naut., a long tackle block having two
sheaves of different diameters in the same plane, instead
of side by side as in a common double block. --knight.
fiddle bow, fiddlestick.
fiddle fish zool., the angel fish.
fiddle head, see fiddle head in the vocabulary.
fiddle pattern, a form of the handles of spoons, forks,
etc., somewhat like a violin.
scotch fiddle, the itch. low
to play first fiddle, or to play second fiddle, to take a
leading or a subordinate part. colloq.
1913 webster
see also:
viol rumex pulcher fiddle dock fiddle beetle damaster blaptoides fiddle block
fiddle bow fiddle fish fiddle head fiddle head fiddle pattern
scotch fiddle to play first fiddle to play second fiddle
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