Definitions for fids

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Spelling: [fid]

IPA: /fɪd/

Fids is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in fids (dfis).

Definitions for fids

noun

1. a stout bar of wood or metal placed across a lower spar so as to support a higher one.
2. a stout bar used to hold a running bowsprit in its extended position.
3. a wooden or metal pin for parting strands of a rope.
4. a bar or pin used as a key or toggle.

Origin of fids

First recorded in 1605-15; origin uncertain

Examples for fids

One which is used in revenue cutters and smacks; it can be reefed by sliding in, and has fid holes for that purpose.

The rope which fid secured made the task comparatively, easy.

He accordingly shut the great doors, and put the fid into the staple.

fiddle, fid′l, n. a stringed instrument of music, called also a Violin.

But he thought her spars too heavy, and ordered his shipwright to "fid them about four feet lower in the hounds," which was done.

Heeling is the square part of the spar through which the fid hole is cut.

When a mast has been swayed high enough the fid is then inserted, and the mast-rope relieved of the weight.

The doors cannot be opened again until the fid is taken out.

The fid should always be fastened to the cross-trees or trestle-trees, by a lanyard.

Duodecim′fid, divided into twelve parts; Duodec′imo, formed of sheets folded so as to make twelve leaves.