A fiddle: probably from CROOTH, the Welch name for that instrument.
·vt To push, to press, to shove. II. Crowd ·vt To press or drive together; to mass together. III. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
a fiddle. Exmoor. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
Out of Salisbury Court, Fleet Street, in Farringdon Ward Without (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799). Not named...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
To carry an extraordinary press of canvas on a ship, as in pursuit of, or flight from, an enemy, &c....
The Sailor's Word-Book