The stringed bow with which a fiddle is played; = FIDDLESTICK.

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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.

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1831.  Brewster, Nat. Magic, viii. (1833), 180. Its vibrations, however, may be kept up, by drawing a rosined fiddle-bow across it.

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1871.  B. Taylor, Faust (1875), I. ii. 40.

            Himself with care arraying:
Around the linden lass and lad
Already footed it like mad:
    Hurrah! hurrah!
    Hurrah—tarara-la!
    The fiddle bow was playing.

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