Home › Words › F › fiddlebowfiddlebowfiddlebow means A bow used to play the fiddle.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, fiddlebow ranks #16,733 of 42,747 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom fiddle + bow.nounA bow used to play the fiddle.e.g.“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.” — 1910, Madison Cawein, “The Shadow Garden, A Phantasy”, in The Shadow Garden (A Phantasy) and Other Plays, New York, N.Y.; London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, scene II, page 30:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).