bull fiddle

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   largest and lowest member of the violin family

   Synonymsbass fiddlebass violdouble basscontrabassstring bass

   Broaderbowed stringed instrumentbass

Questions about bull fiddle

What does bull fiddle mean?

bull fiddle means "largest and lowest member of the violin family".

What is another word for bull fiddle?

Close synonyms include bass fiddle, bass viol, double bass, contrabass, string bass. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bull fiddle a common word?

bull fiddle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.