fids
- plural of fid.
Example Sentences
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The same correspondent writes:— 'We cut out regular "fids" once from a tiger's stomach, also large pieces of bone.
From Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter by Inglis, James
Old Cupid carried the Wallingford's ensign, and a sort of harlequinade had been made out of marlinspikes, serving mallets, sail-maker's palms, and fids.
From Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" by Cooper, James Fenimore
The other rigging I cut, and having got out the fids of the two masts, one at a time, I pushed the spars through their respective caps with a foot.
From Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" by Cooper, James Fenimore
One case there was where, for three nights running, great fids of wire were cut out of some artillery cables connecting them with their observers—a most reprehensible deed.
From The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915 by Gleichen, Edward, Lord
