Fiddlebow

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A bow used to play the fiddle.

    "Some day some Gnome will steal his fiddlebow, / Or crack the stretched strings of his violin, / And hang him with them from thy windowed leaves / For all thy Flowers to gape at."

Example

More examples

"Some day some Gnome will steal his fiddlebow, / Or crack the stretched strings of his violin, / And hang him with them from thy windowed leaves / For all thy Flowers to gape at."

Etymology

From fiddle + bow.

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