Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical, the iron framework or cover forming a hatch on deck over the engine- or fire-room of a steamer.
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Examples
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By opening the door the Red Un was able to command the cylinder tops, far below, and the fiddley, which is the roof of hell or a steel grating over the cylinders to walk on -- depending on whether one is used to it or not.
Love Stories Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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The shattered wreck of the lifeboat they had held lay on the fiddley beside the smashed engine-room skylight, which was covered by a tarpaulin.
THE SEA FARMER 2010
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It's only a little fiddley but worth the small effort.
Knitting! FUZZARELLY 2007
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It's only a little fiddley but worth the small effort.
Archive 2007-04-27 FUZZARELLY 2007
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But this took me about 3 hours and was very very fiddley.
Tubbypaws Tubbypaws 2007
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Which still is fiddley as I don't think I could boot into win2k and install the drivers anyway... dang!
April 11th, 2006 curufea 2006
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I have the iriver h140 bigger disk I find it pretty fiddley to record even though your supposed to just be able to press record and it records it doesnt always respond very well, maybee i have fat fingers.
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It was fiddley trying to even out the very tops of the egg cups, so I eventually just went for “rustic”.
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With infinite labour the Seconds got the Chief up to the fiddley, twenty feet or less out of a hundred, and straight ladders instead of a steel staircase.
Love Stories Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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The sea must a-caught hum on the upper brudge deck, carried hum clean across the fiddley, an 'banged hum head-on tull the pipe cover.
The Sea Farmer 1914
reesetee commented on the word fiddley
Iron framework around the hatchway opening of a ship.
February 15, 2008