1644 H. Mainwaring Fidd-hammer is a Fidd made sharpe at one end, to splise a roape, and a Hammer at the other end.
1721–1800 N. Bailey Fidd-hammer.
1789 7 217 A top-mast inverted: the fid-hole to ship the tiller in.
1869 E. J. Reed xvi. 315 Thus steel yards have snapped in the truss, topmasts in the fid-hole.