Fiddle Head Small 243×320 Medium 486×640 Large 778×1024 Download Tiff Original 1824×2400 | (1.0 MB) Description "Naut., an ornament at the bow of a ship, over the cutwater, consisting of carved work in the form of a volute or scroll, resembling somewhat that at the head of a violin." -Whitney, 1911 Keywords carving, fiddle head, fiddle-head, scroll, ship bow, ship ornament Galleries Miscellaneous Ship Illustrations Source: William Dwight Whitney The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language (New York, NY: The Century Co., 1911)
