Lexicographical Neighbors of Fiddley
Literary usage of Fiddley
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical Shipbuilding: A Treatise on the Structural Design and Building of by A. Campbell Holms (1918)
"The cowls are strongly constructed, and as they are elevated on the top of the
fiddley casing, they can withstand almost any weather. ..."
2. Gunner Depew by Albert N. Depew (1918)
"We were drilled down the fiddley into the fire room. The fiddley is a shaft that
runs from the main deck of a ship to the engine room. ..."
3. Richard Henry Dana: A Biography by Charles Francis Adams (1891)
"Still, in the saloon below the parties are at their suppers, their wines, cards
and cigars, as ever, and the talk of the loungers in the fiddley goes on as ..."
4. The Atlantic Ferry: Its Ships, Men, and Working by Arthur J. Maginnis (1892)
"... supplementing the supply drawn through the fiddley gratings. Below these are
fourteen fans, driven by Chandler engines, and constructed by Messrs. ..."
5. In the Niger Country by Harold Bindloss (1898)
"Now and then a blackened face streaked with grime and perspiration rose up above
the fiddley gratings, and its owner, gulping in a breath of comparatively ..."
6. Elements of Modern Materialism: Inculcating the Idea of a Future State in by Charles Knowlton (1829)
"... in many instances, under the necessity of regarding the soul as the fiddle
and the brain as the fiddley: they must admit that there is no music, ..."
Other Resources:
