Usually means: Tool for splicing and manipulating ropes.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. -fid, fid: Merriam-Webster
  2. fid, fid: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fid: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. -fid, fid: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Fid, fid: Wordnik
  6. Fid, fid: Wiktionary
  7. -fid, fid: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. fid: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. fid: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. FID, -fid, fid: Dictionary.com
  11. FID (disambiguation), FID, Fid: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Fid: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. fid: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Fid: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. fid: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. -fid, fid: MyWord.info
  17. FID: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  18. fid: FreeDictionary.org
  19. fid: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. fid: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fid-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fid: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FID: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. FID: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. FID: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. FID: Acronym Finder
  2. FID: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fid: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. F.I.D, F.I.D, fid: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  3. Fid: Latitude Mexico

Definitions from Wiktionary (FID)

noun:  (nautical) A pointed tool without any sharp edges, used in weaving or knotwork to tighten and form up weaves or complex knots; used in sailing ships to open the strands of a rope before splicing.
noun:  (nautical) A square bar of wood or iron, with a shoulder at one end, to support the weight of the topmast (on a ship).
noun:  A plug of oakum for the vent of a gun.
noun:  A small thick piece of anything.
noun:  A wooden or metal bar or pin, used to support or steady anything.
noun:  (nautical, slang) The penis.
verb:  To support a topmast using a fid.
noun:  (Antarctica, slang) A British worker with the British Antarctic Survey.
noun:  A mountain peak in Graham Land, Antarctica.
noun:  (nutrition) Initialism of functional iron deficiency.

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