Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A string for a fiddle or violin.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One of the catgut strings of a fiddle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One of the
strings of afiddle .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Fanny, a bright-looking, but rather reckless girl, replied: "They shall not go, neither Miss Martha nor Miss Emma; not that I care a fiddlestring for their primness or their precision; nobody shall prevent me from thinking, and acting, and doing as I please to-day; from being, in short, what I was made to be -- Fanny Brighton, and nobody else."
Be Courteous or, Religion, the True Refiner Mrs. M. H. Maxwell
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All morning, till the sun was high, and the air athrob with heat and stretched like a great fiddlestring to a continuous, shrill vibration, we went steadily forward.
Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance Walter De la Mare 1914
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So both stand like statues; the dog held by the strange instinct which makes him point, lost to sight, sound and all things else save the smell in his nose, the grouse tense as a fiddlestring, every sense alert, watching the enemy whom he thinks to be fooled by his good hiding.
Secret of the Woods William Joseph Long 1909
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He didn't care a twopenny fiddlestring about the Cause, but he rather enjoyed the idea of having his finger in the political pie.
The Toys of Peace, and other papers 1870-1916 Saki 1893
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'You may compare it to a rustic's finger on a fiddlestring, for the murdered notes you get out of the practical instrument.
One of Our Conquerors — Complete George Meredith 1868
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'Blood Rile,' she said; and her friends all said 'No!' like the run of a finger down a fiddlestring.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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'Blood Rile,' she said; and her friends all said 'No!' like the run of a finger down a fiddlestring.
The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868
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'You may compare it to a rustic's finger on a fiddlestring, for the murdered notes you get out of the practical instrument.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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'You may compare it to a rustic's finger on a fiddlestring, for the murdered notes you get out of the practical instrument.
One of Our Conquerors — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868
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'Blood Rile,' she said; and her friends all said 'No!' like the run of a finger down a fiddlestring.
The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete George Meredith 1868
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