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Is as it were an Iron pin, made tape-ring and sharpe at the lower end, which is to open the strands of the roapes when we splise two roapes together; but when we splise cabells we use fidders of wood, in the same forme and nature but much-bigger, which if they were made of Iron, would be too heavy to work withall; The pin in the heele of the top-mast which beares it upon the Ches-trees, is a fidd.