ˈfiddle-bow
The stringed bow with which a fiddle is played; = fiddlestick.
| 1827 W. Hersee in Gentl. Mag. Dec. 484 Thine elbow instinctively moving to the fiddle-bow even after sleep had settled upon thy weary eyelids. 1831 Brewster Nat. Magic viii. (1833) 180 Drawing a rosined fiddle-bow across it. 1871 B. Taylor Faust (1875) I. ii. 40 The fiddle bow was playing. |