fid
noun
a stout bar of wood or metal placed across a lower spar so as to support a higher one.
fids
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pluralof fid.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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 James Inglis
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 James Fenimore Cooper
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 Lord Edward Gleichen
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 James Fenimore Cooper
