FIDDLESTICK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fiddlestick mean? 

• FIDDLESTICK (noun)
  The noun FIDDLESTICK has 1 sense:

1. a bow used in playing the violin

  Familiarity information: FIDDLESTICK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIDDLESTICK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bow used in playing the violin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

fiddlestick; violin bow

Hypernyms ("fiddlestick" is a kind of...):

bow (a slightly curved piece of resilient wood with taut horsehair strands; used in playing certain stringed instruments)

Holonyms ("fiddlestick" is a part of...):

fiddle; violin (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)

 Context examples 

“A mixed fiddlestick,” returned my aunt.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Summerlee burst into derisive laughter "A pter-fiddlestick!" said he.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)