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fiddle yard

fiddle yard noun: a section of a model railway layout that is reserved for storing and working on trains, often hidden from view.

fiddle yard: a section of a model railway layout that is reserved for storing and working on trains, often...
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Noun

fiddle yard (plural fiddle yards)

  1. A section of a model railway layout that is reserved for storing and working on trains, often hidden from view.
    • Such a halt would enhance any model railway, perhaps leading to a fiddle yard on the right.1999, Alan Postlethwaite, Odd corners of the Southern: from the days of steam, page 27
    • I know of a few modelers who take this concept to the ultimate by providing a dedicated cassette for each individual item of equipment; however, this requires more dedication than I'm inclined to! It also makes for a lot of high-precision work in the fiddle yard.2009, Iain Rice, Shelf Layouts for Model Railroads, →ISBN, page 20

Forms of fiddle yard

pluralfiddle yards

Questions about fiddle yard

What does fiddle yard mean?
Fiddle yard means a section of a model railway layout that is reserved for storing and working on trains, often hidden from view.
What part of speech is fiddle yard?
Fiddle yard is a noun.
What is the plural of fiddle yard?
The plural of fiddle yard is fiddle yards.

Words near fiddle yard in the dictionary

  1. fiddle face
  2. fiddle faces
  3. fiddle the books
  4. fiddle while Rome burns
  5. fiddle with
  6. fiddle yard
  7. fiddle yards
  8. fiddle-faddle
  9. fiddle-faddled
  10. fiddle-faddler
  11. fiddle-faddlers

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