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noun Nautical.
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:
1605–15; origin uncertain
1605–15; origin uncertain
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Fid
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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-fid
a combining form meaning “divided,” “lobed,” occurring in adjectives borrowed from Latin (bifid); on this model, used in the formation of compound words (pinnatifid).
Origin:
< Latin -fidus divided, equivalent to -fid- (variant stem of findere to split) + -us adj. suffix
< Latin -fidus divided, equivalent to -fid- (variant stem of findere to split) + -us adj. suffix
fid.
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Word Origin & History
-fid
comb. form meaning split, divided into parts, from L. -fidus, related to findere to split (see fissure).
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American Heritage
Abbreviations & Acronyms
| FID free induction decay |
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