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fiddleback

noun

Etymology

From fiddle + back.

  1. inherited from *bʰeg-✻ — “to bend”
  2. inherited from *baką✻
  3. inherited from *bak✻
  4. inherited from bæc
  5. inherited from bak
  6. compounded as fiddleback — “fiddle + back”

Definitions

  1. The brown recluse spider.

  2. A feature of maple wood where the fibers are distorted in an undulating chatoyant pattern.

  3. A kind of chasuble with the front cut away.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA