fiddle-headed

Dear Lady ALICIA, how plump she was, and how good-natured, and how well she married her fiddle-headed daughters.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, July 18, 1891 Various

"What is that fiddle-headed brute doing in the ring?" he said.

Three Elephant Power and Other Stories 1902

Gaslight turned out to be a fiddle-headed, heavy-shouldered brute, whose long experience of jumping in shows where they give points for pace -- as if the affair was a steeplechase -- had taught him to get the business over as quickly as he could.

Three Elephant Power and Other Stories 1902

I looked at the bay, a bald-faced, fiddle-headed horse, and saw that, with no signs of breeding, it was still a big-boned animal with good shoulders and powerful hips.

A Gentleman of France Stanley John Weyman 1891

Its panelled front was in the likeness of a ship's bluff bows, and the Holy Bible rested on a projecting piece of scroll work, fashioned after a ship's fiddle-headed beak.

Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

Its panelled front was in the likeness of a ship's bluff bows, and the Holy Bible rested on a projecting piece of scroll work, fashioned after a ship's fiddle-headed beak.

Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

Its panelled front was in the likeness of a ship's bluff bows, and the Holy Bible rested on the projecting piece of scroll work, fashioned after a ship's fiddle-headed beak.

Moby-Dick, or, The Whale 1851

'There's your affaire,' said the old Frenchman, as a long-legged fiddle-headed beast was led out; turning out his forelegs so as to endanger the man who walked beside him.

The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete Charles James Lever 1839

'There's your affaire,' said the old Frenchman, as a long-legged fiddle-headed beast was led out; turning out his forelegs so as to endanger the man who walked beside him.

The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 5 Charles James Lever 1839

Seth’s bold black and white winter-scapes somehow interfere and detract from the warm pastoral valleys, muddy river-ways and fiddle-headed visions of ‘ruddled’ roads that Wells’ words conjure.

Hopkins, Wells, Music and Communication 2010