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Definition of Bull fiddle
1. Noun. Largest and lowest member of the violin family.
Generic synonyms: Bass, Bowed Stringed Instrument, String
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bull Fiddle
Literary usage of Bull fiddle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Whigs and Whiggism: Political Writings by Benjamin Disraeli (1914)
"... JOHN BULL. Fiddle-faddle ! And where do you oome from last ? CRISIS. Straight from
Canada. JOHN BULL. And you have been very active there, they say. ..."
2. In the Alamo by Opie Percival Read (1900)
""Sam, can you get Pete and Mose with their fiddle and horn and Tab with his bull
fiddle ? We want music. ..."
3. Rhymes of a Homesteader by Elliott Curtis Lincoln (1920)
"Ol' bull fiddle goin' zoom, zoom, zoom, Little fiddle callin' too. Soft cheek
blushin' like a rose in bloom • What's a feller goin' ter do? ..."
4. Figurative Uses of Animal Names in Latin and Their Application to Military by Eugene Stock McCartney (1912)
"... strength, loudness, coarseness, as seen in horse-laugh, horse-nettle, horse-play,
horse-ant, horse-sense, bull-frog, bull-fiddle, elephant-folio. ..."
5. Marsena: And Other Stories of the Wartime by Harold Frederic (1894)
"... any instrument they liked, though his preference was for what he called the
bull fiddle. He spoke often of having travelled as a bandsman with a circus. ..."
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