Fiddle vs. Viol

A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres including classical music.

The viol (), viola da gamba (Italian: [ˈvjɔːla da (ɡ)ˈɡamba]), or informally gamba, is any one of a family of bowed, fretted and stringed instruments with hollow wooden bodies and pegboxes where the tension on the strings can be increased or decreased to adjust the pitch of each of the strings. Frets on the viol are usually made of gut, tied on the fingerboard around the instrument's neck, to enable the performer to stop the strings more cleanly.

A violin, especially one used to play folk or country music.

Any of a family of stringed instruments, chiefly of the 1500s and 1600s, having a fretted fingerboard, usually six strings, and a flat back and played with a curved bow.

(Nautical) A guardrail used on a table during rough weather to prevent things from slipping off.

See viola da gamba.

(Informal) Nonsensical, trifling matters

(musical instrument) A stringed instrument related to the violin family, but held in the lap between the legs like a cello, usually with C-holes, a flat back, a fretted neck and six strings, played with an underhanded bow hold

Chiefly British An instance of cheating or swindling; a fraud.

(nautical) A large rope used to manipulate the anchor

To play a fiddle.

To play the viol.

To touch or handle something in a nervous way

A stringed musical instrument formerly in use, of the same form as the violin, but larger, and having six strings, to be struck with a bow, and the neck furnished with frets for stopping the strings.

To make unskilled efforts at repairing or improving

A large rope sometimes used in weighing anchor.

To meddle or tamper

any of a family of bowed stringed instruments that preceded the violin family

Chiefly British To commit a fraud, especially to steal from one's employer.

To play (a tune) on a fiddle.

Chiefly British To alter or falsify for dishonest gain

synonym of violin, a small unfretted stringed instrument with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) G-D-A-E, usually held against the chin and played with a bow; the position of a violinist in a band; any of various bowed stringed instruments, particularly those of the violin family when played non-classically.

(figurative) clown: an unserious person entertaining a group.

(figurative) Unskillful or unartful behavior, particularly when showy and superficially pleasing.

synonym of scam, a fraud or swindle.

(slang) workaround, a quick and less than perfect solution for some flaw or problem.

Any rail or device that prevents items from sliding off a table, stove, etc. in rough water.

synonym of arrest warrant.

synonym of watchman's rattle.

A trifling amount.

Something resembling a violin in shape, particularly:

(biology) A dock (Rumex pulcher) with leaves supposed to resemble the musical instrument.

A long pole pulled by a draft animal to drag loose straw, hay, etc.

A rack for drying pottery after glazing.

To play the fiddle or violin, particularly in a folk or country style.

To fidget or play; to idly amuse oneself, to act aimlessly, idly, or frivolously, particularly out of nervousness or restlessness.

(informal) To cheat or swindle; to commit fraud.

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(obsolete) fiddlesticks.

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.

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

avoid (one's assigned duties);

commit fraud and steal from one's employer;

play the violin or fiddle

play on a violin;

manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination;

play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly;

try to fix or mend;