Definition of fiddle

• n. - A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit.
• n. - A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher) with fiddle-shaped leaves; -- called also fiddle dock.
• n. - A rack or frame of bars connected by strings, to keep table furniture in place on the cabin table in bad weather.
• v. i. - To play on a fiddle.
• v. i. - To keep the hands and fingers actively moving as a fiddler does; to move the hands and fingers restlessy or in busy idleness; to trifle.
• v. t. - To play (a tune) on a fiddle.