fidn.

Brit.

/fɪd/, U.S.

/fɪd/

Forms: Also 1700s–1800s fidd.

Etymology: Of unknown origin; it is doubtful whether all the senses belong to the same word.

Chiefly Nautical.

1. A conical pin of hard wood, from 9 to 30 in. long, used to open the strands of a rope in splicing.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > fitting out or equipping ships > rigging a ship > rope work > tools

marling iron1485

marlinspike1539

fid1615

fidder1644

jewel1750

splicer1923

marler1929

1615 E. Sharpe Britaines Busse sig. B2 Fids or Hammers.

a1642 W. Monson Naval Tracts (1704) iii. 342/1 Fids and Marling Spikes.

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms Epissoir, a..splicing fid.

1779–80 J. Cook Voy. II. 39 Shaped somewhat like a large fid or sugar-loaf.

2. A square bar of wood or iron, with a shoulder at one end, used to support the weight of the top-mast and also the topgallant mast.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > angle-bracket

bracket1627

fid1644

angle bracket1733

crank1769

angle bar1793

gusset18..

angle iron1819

angle plate1850

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > mast > topmast > support for

top-nail1337

cap1626

fid1644

1644 H. Mainwaring Sea-mans Dict. (at cited word) The pin in the heele of the top-mast which beares it upon the ches-trees, is a fidd.

1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 29 Fids are made square.

1824 Ann. Reg. 271* An improved fidd for the upper masts of ships.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk.

3. A plug of oakum for the vent of a gun.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > equipment for use with firearms > [noun] > stopper for vent

fid1626

vent-plug1846

1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 31 Their fids and leads to keepe dry the touch hole.

1721–1800 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk.

4. ? transferred. A plug or quid of tobacco.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > [noun] > tobacco in a roll, cake, or stick > small piece cut from

cudeOE

quid1720

chew1725

chaw1772

fid1793

fig1838

plug1843

1793 F. Grose Dict. Vulgar Tongue Fid of Tobacco.

1860 in J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3)

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk.

a. dialect. A small but thick piece of anything.

ΚΠ

1838 W. Holloway Gen. Dict. Provincialisms

1851 H. Newland Erne 71 It [a trout] was already cut into fids of five or six inches in length.

1883 W. H. Cope Gloss. Hampshire Words Fid, sb. a piece. Ex. ‘A fid of cheese’.

b. A heap; plural ‘heaps’, ‘crowds’. Also as an exclamation = Great!

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [interjection]

primea1637

à la bonne heure1750

shabash1843

all righty1877

fid1898

quaiss kitir1898

show1916

that's (also it's) the gear1925

swell1930

bakgat1969

solid1978

awesome1984

amazeballs2008

daebak2009

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > (a) great quantity or amount

felec825

muchc1230

good wone1297

plentyc1300

bushelc1374

sight1390

mickle-whata1393

forcea1400

manynessa1400

multitudea1400

packc1400

a good dealc1430

greata1450

sackful1484

power1489

horseloadc1500

mile1508

lump1523

a deal?1532

peckc1535

heapa1547

mass1566

mass1569

gallon1575

armful1579

cart-load1587

mickle1599

bushelful1600–12

a load1609

wreck1612

parisha1616

herd1618

fair share1650

heapa1661

muchness1674

reams1681

hantle1693

mort1694

doll?1719

lift1755

acre1759

beaucoup1760

ton1770

boxload1795

boatload1807

lot1811

dollop1819

swag1819

faggald1824

screed1826

Niagara1828

wad1828

lashings1829

butt1831

slew1839

ocean1840

any amount (of)1848

rake1851

slather1857

horde1860

torrent1864

sheaf1865

oodlesa1867

dead load1869

scad1869

stack1870

jorum1872

a heap sight1874

firlot1883

oodlings1886

chunka1889

whips1888

God's quantity1895

streetful1901

bag1917

fid1920

fleetful1923

mob1927

bucketload1930

pisspot1944

shitload1954

megaton1957

mob-o-ton1975

gazillion1978

buttload1988

shit ton1991

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > mass formed by collection of particles > an accumulation > heap or pile

heapc725

cockeOE

hill1297

tassc1330

glub1382

mow?1424

bulkc1440

pile1440

pie1526

bing1528

borwen1570

ruck1601

rick1608

wreck1612

congest1625

castle1636

coacervation1650

congestion1664

cop1666

cumble1694

bin1695

toss1695

thurrock1708

rucklea1725

burrow1784

mound1788

wad1805

stook1865

boorach1868

barrow1869

sorites1871

tump1892

fid1926

clamp-

1898 R. Kipling In Ambush in Stalky & Co. (1899) 13 Fids! Fids! Oh, Fids! I gloat! Hear me gloat!

1920 Blackwood's Mag. Oct. 473/1 Look at the dirty blighters on that hill there! Fids of 'em!

1926 Blackwood's Mag. Mar. 353/2 Little fids of snow.

1935 H. Nicolson Let. 26 Feb. (1966) I. 200 There was..a fat fid of letters from home.

1949 H. Nicolson Let. 15 June (1968) III. 171 I would welcome a fid or two of Anchusa..among these white and silver objects.

6. dialect. See quot. 1863 [Perhaps a different word; compare fad n.¹, fawd n., feald n. in same sense.]

ΚΠ

1863 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. (new ed.) II. (Gloss.) 722/3 Fid (Kent), a thatcher's handful of straw.

7. ‘A wooden or metal bar or pin, used to support or steady anything’ (Webster).

ΚΠ

1851 J. S. Springer Forest Life & Forest Trees ii. v. 107 After having knocked out the ‘fid’, which united the chain that bound the load, the log rolled suddenly upon him.

1857 P. M. Colquhoun Compan. Oarsman's Guide 31 A fid is a wedge passed through a hole to secure anything.

Compounds

C1. attributive, as fid-hammer, fid-hole.

ΚΠ

1644 H. Mainwaring Sea-mans Dict. Fidd-hammer is a Fidd made sharpe at one end, to splise a roape, and a Hammer at the other end.

1721–1800 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Fidd-hammer.

1789 Trans. Soc. Arts 7 217 A top-mast inverted: the fid-hole to ship the tiller in.

1869 E. J. Reed Shipbuilding xvi. 315 Thus steel yards have snapped in the truss, topmasts in the fid-hole.

C2.

fid-hook n. (see quot. 1905).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > lumbering equipment > lumberer's hook

pike-pole1765

picaroon1837

pickpole1837

fid-hook1851

driving-pike1877

swamp-hook1877

peavey1878

Samson1905

1851 J. S. Springer Forest Life & Forest Trees 108 He examines above all the ‘fid-hook’ and the ‘dog-hook’, the former that it does not work out, the latter that it loose not its grappling hold upon the tree.

1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 37 Fid hook, a slender, flat hook used to keep another hook from slipping on a chain.

1958 W. F. McCulloch Woods Words 61 Fid hook—a. A flat hook with a narrow slot and a movable tongue... b. A flat hook without the tongue.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

fidv.

Brit.

/fɪd/, U.S.

/fɪd/

Etymology: < fid n.

transitive. To fix (a topmast, etc.) with a fid. Also with out.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > build a ship [verb (transitive)] > fit out or equip > rig > furnish with masts > fix topmast with fid

fid1729

1729 W. Wriglesworth MS. Log-bk. of ‘Lyell’ 31 Sept. Rigg'd maintopmast and fidded it.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 293 Fidded.

1883 Man. Seamanship for Boys' Training Ships Royal Navy 220 The cringle is..fidded out.

1901 W. C. Russell Ship's Adventure 342 A full-rigged ship must have fidded topmast and fidded top-gallant-mast.

1930 Sea Breezes 13 86 Does anybody know if the Prince Oscar had fidded royal masts when she first came out?

Derivatives

ˈfidded adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [adjective] > fitted out or equipped > fixed with fid (of topmast)

fidded1948

1948 R. de Kerchove Internat. Maritime Dict. 255/2 Fidded topmast.

ˈfidding n.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > fitting out or equipping ships > rigging a ship > specific operations

stayinga1618

fiddingc1860

c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 18 Top tackle pendants, and falls..are used for Fidding or housing the mast.

1883 Man. Seamanship for Boys' Training Ships Royal Navy 30 Holes in the heel of topmasts, for the top tackle pendants to reef through for housing, striking, or fidding.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	fid
释义	fidn. Brit. /fɪd/, U.S. /fɪd/ Forms: Also 1700s–1800s fidd. Etymology: Of unknown origin; it is doubtful whether all the senses belong to the same word. Chiefly Nautical. 1. A conical pin of hard wood, from 9 to 30 in. long, used to open the strands of a rope in splicing. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > fitting out or equipping ships > rigging a ship > rope work > tools marling iron1485 marlinspike1539 fid1615 fidder1644 jewel1750 splicer1923 marler1929 1615 E. Sharpe Britaines Busse sig. B2 Fids or Hammers. a1642 W. Monson Naval Tracts (1704) iii. 342/1 Fids and Marling Spikes. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms Epissoir, a..splicing fid. 1779–80 J. Cook Voy. II. 39 Shaped somewhat like a large fid or sugar-loaf. 2. A square bar of wood or iron, with a shoulder at one end, used to support the weight of the top-mast and also the topgallant mast. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > angle-bracket bracket1627 fid1644 angle bracket1733 crank1769 angle bar1793 gusset18.. angle iron1819 angle plate1850 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > mast > topmast > support for top-nail1337 cap1626 fid1644 1644 H. Mainwaring Sea-mans Dict. (at cited word) The pin in the heele of the top-mast which beares it upon the ches-trees, is a fidd. 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 29 Fids are made square. 1824 Ann. Reg. 271* An improved fidd for the upper masts of ships. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 3. A plug of oakum for the vent of a gun. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > equipment for use with firearms > [noun] > stopper for vent fid1626 vent-plug1846 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 31 Their fids and leads to keepe dry the touch hole. 1721–1800 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 4. ? transferred. A plug or quid of tobacco. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > [noun] > tobacco in a roll, cake, or stick > small piece cut from cudeOE quid1720 chew1725 chaw1772 fid1793 fig1838 plug1843 1793 F. Grose Dict. Vulgar Tongue Fid of Tobacco. 1860 in J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 5. a. dialect. A small but thick piece of anything. ΚΠ 1838 W. Holloway Gen. Dict. Provincialisms 1851 H. Newland Erne 71 It [a trout] was already cut into fids of five or six inches in length. 1883 W. H. Cope Gloss. Hampshire Words Fid, sb. a piece. Ex. ‘A fid of cheese’. b. A heap; plural ‘heaps’, ‘crowds’. Also as an exclamation = Great! ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [interjection] primea1637 à la bonne heure1750 shabash1843 all righty1877 fid1898 quaiss kitir1898 show1916 that's (also it's) the gear1925 swell1930 bakgat1969 solid1978 awesome1984 amazeballs2008 daebak2009 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > (a) great quantity or amount felec825 muchc1230 good wone1297 plentyc1300 bushelc1374 sight1390 mickle-whata1393 forcea1400 manynessa1400 multitudea1400 packc1400 a good dealc1430 greata1450 sackful1484 power1489 horseloadc1500 mile1508 lump1523 a deal?1532 peckc1535 heapa1547 mass1566 mass1569 gallon1575 armful1579 cart-load1587 mickle1599 bushelful1600–12 a load1609 wreck1612 parisha1616 herd1618 fair share1650 heapa1661 muchness1674 reams1681 hantle1693 mort1694 doll?1719 lift1755 acre1759 beaucoup1760 ton1770 boxload1795 boatload1807 lot1811 dollop1819 swag1819 faggald1824 screed1826 Niagara1828 wad1828 lashings1829 butt1831 slew1839 ocean1840 any amount (of)1848 rake1851 slather1857 horde1860 torrent1864 sheaf1865 oodlesa1867 dead load1869 scad1869 stack1870 jorum1872 a heap sight1874 firlot1883 oodlings1886 chunka1889 whips1888 God's quantity1895 streetful1901 bag1917 fid1920 fleetful1923 mob1927 bucketload1930 pisspot1944 shitload1954 megaton1957 mob-o-ton1975 gazillion1978 buttload1988 shit ton1991 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > mass formed by collection of particles > an accumulation > heap or pile heapc725 cockeOE hill1297 tassc1330 glub1382 mow?1424 bulkc1440 pile1440 pie1526 bing1528 borwen1570 ruck1601 rick1608 wreck1612 congest1625 castle1636 coacervation1650 congestion1664 cop1666 cumble1694 bin1695 toss1695 thurrock1708 rucklea1725 burrow1784 mound1788 wad1805 stook1865 boorach1868 barrow1869 sorites1871 tump1892 fid1926 clamp- 1898 R. Kipling In Ambush in Stalky & Co. (1899) 13 Fids! Fids! Oh, Fids! I gloat! Hear me gloat! 1920 Blackwood's Mag. Oct. 473/1 Look at the dirty blighters on that hill there! Fids of 'em! 1926 Blackwood's Mag. Mar. 353/2 Little fids of snow. 1935 H. Nicolson Let. 26 Feb. (1966) I. 200 There was..a fat fid of letters from home. 1949 H. Nicolson Let. 15 June (1968) III. 171 I would welcome a fid or two of Anchusa..among these white and silver objects. 6. dialect. See quot. 1863 [Perhaps a different word; compare fad n.¹, fawd n., feald n. in same sense.] ΚΠ 1863 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. (new ed.) II. (Gloss.) 722/3 Fid (Kent), a thatcher's handful of straw. 7. ‘A wooden or metal bar or pin, used to support or steady anything’ (Webster). ΚΠ 1851 J. S. Springer Forest Life & Forest Trees ii. v. 107 After having knocked out the ‘fid’, which united the chain that bound the load, the log rolled suddenly upon him. 1857 P. M. Colquhoun Compan. Oarsman's Guide 31 A fid is a wedge passed through a hole to secure anything. Compounds C1. attributive, as fid-hammer, fid-hole. ΚΠ 1644 H. Mainwaring Sea-mans Dict. Fidd-hammer is a Fidd made sharpe at one end, to splise a roape, and a Hammer at the other end. 1721–1800 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Fidd-hammer. 1789 Trans. Soc. Arts 7 217 A top-mast inverted: the fid-hole to ship the tiller in. 1869 E. J. Reed Shipbuilding xvi. 315 Thus steel yards have snapped in the truss, topmasts in the fid-hole. C2. fid-hook n. (see quot. 1905). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > lumbering equipment > lumberer's hook pike-pole1765 picaroon1837 pickpole1837 fid-hook1851 driving-pike1877 swamp-hook1877 peavey1878 Samson1905 1851 J. S. Springer Forest Life & Forest Trees 108 He examines above all the ‘fid-hook’ and the ‘dog-hook’, the former that it does not work out, the latter that it loose not its grappling hold upon the tree. 1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 37 Fid hook, a slender, flat hook used to keep another hook from slipping on a chain. 1958 W. F. McCulloch Woods Words 61 Fid hook—a. A flat hook with a narrow slot and a movable tongue... b. A flat hook without the tongue. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022). fidv. Brit. /fɪd/, U.S. /fɪd/ Etymology: < fid n. transitive. To fix (a topmast, etc.) with a fid. Also with out. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > build a ship [verb (transitive)] > fit out or equip > rig > furnish with masts > fix topmast with fid fid1729 1729 W. Wriglesworth MS. Log-bk. of ‘Lyell’ 31 Sept. Rigg'd maintopmast and fidded it. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 293 Fidded. 1883 Man. Seamanship for Boys' Training Ships Royal Navy 220 The cringle is..fidded out. 1901 W. C. Russell Ship's Adventure 342 A full-rigged ship must have fidded topmast and fidded top-gallant-mast. 1930 Sea Breezes 13 86 Does anybody know if the Prince Oscar had fidded royal masts when she first came out? Derivatives ˈfidded adj. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [adjective] > fitted out or equipped > fixed with fid (of topmast) fidded1948 1948 R. de Kerchove Internat. Maritime Dict. 255/2 Fidded topmast. ˈfidding n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > fitting out or equipping ships > rigging a ship > specific operations stayinga1618 fiddingc1860 c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 18 Top tackle pendants, and falls..are used for Fidding or housing the mast. 1883 Man. Seamanship for Boys' Training Ships Royal Navy 30 Holes in the heel of topmasts, for the top tackle pendants to reef through for housing, striking, or fidding. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2022). > see also also refers to : -fidcomb. form < n.1615v.1729 see also
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