a stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit.-a kind of dock (rumex pulcher) with fiddle-shaped leaves; -- called also fiddle dock.-a rack or frame of bars connected by strings, to keep table furniture in place on the cabin table in bad weather.-to play on a fiddle.-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.-to play (a tune) on a fiddle.