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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
fiddley .
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Examples
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In the dark passage by the fidley he fell to tremorous weeping.
Our Mr. Wrenn 2004
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This hatch, about 2-1/2 to 3 feet square, would have been fitted with an iron or iron-bound fidley grating, with solid cover over.
The Pioneer Steamship Savannah: A Study for a Scale Model United States National Museum Bulletin 228, 1961, pages 61-80 Howard Irving Chapelle
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The upper portion of the stack probably overlapped the lower portion at least 3 to 4 feet above the fidley coaming, and the upper stack rested on a collar bearing at the bottom of the overlap.
The Pioneer Steamship Savannah: A Study for a Scale Model United States National Museum Bulletin 228, 1961, pages 61-80 Howard Irving Chapelle
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A fidley hatch, in which the stack passed through the upper deck, would have been a square hatch forward of the deckhouse.
The Pioneer Steamship Savannah: A Study for a Scale Model United States National Museum Bulletin 228, 1961, pages 61-80 Howard Irving Chapelle
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In the dark passage by the fidley he fell to tremorous weeping.
Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man Sinclair Lewis 1918
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In the dark passage by the fidley he fell to tremorous weeping.
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Wow look how fidley the touch screen looks, he has to use his fingernail to touch some of the areas correctly!
doggdot.us 2008
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Wow look how fidley the touch screen looks, he has to use his fingernail to touch some of the areas correctly!
doggdot.us 2008
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With no graphical installer it's fidley to install and for the Linux newbie it would be impossible as they would have to be able to use Gparted to set up the partitions.
PCLinuxOS-Forums 2008
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