Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A device for making a noise, usually consisting of a large, open packing-box across the rosined edges of which a rough plank or rail is drawn like a huge bow.
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Examples
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And if you should hear me serrynadin 'you with a horse-fiddle after a while, don't be scared.
The Wrong Woman Charles D. Stewart
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The Performer nearest them was running a slow bass scale on a sort of two-stringed horse-fiddle of a strange shape.
Average Jones Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914
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But now, 's'she,' I get to thinkin 'sometimes I wouldn't mind a horse-fiddle if some of 'em played it.'
Friendship Village Zona Gale 1906
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"We've made a horse-fiddle before now, haven't we? that rope's got so much resin on it that it squeaks if you just look at it."
The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill Ruel Perley Smith 1903
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Colonel Witham had heard the strains of Henry Burns's horse-fiddle.
The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill Ruel Perley Smith 1903
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The concert given to Squire Woodbridge the night previous, had been an extemporized affair, with only one horse-fiddle, and insufficient support from other instruments.
The Duke of Stockbridge Edward Bellamy 1874
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The allusion to the stopping of the horse-fiddle was Greek to Mrs. Edwards, to whose ears the story had never come.
The Duke of Stockbridge Edward Bellamy 1874
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The benefit concert, planned in cooperation with the Colorado State University Mongolian Student Organi-zation, will feature traditional Mongolian folk dancing, a Mongolian contortionist and a performance by a horse-fiddle violinist.
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"horse-fiddle" into the larynx of this bird -- but it is not ours to ask the reason why, simply to study her as she is.
Birds of the Rockies 1896
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