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/fˈɪdələr/ /fˈɪdlər/ Listen

noun

Fiddler n.

One who plays on a fiddle or violin.

(Zool.) A burrowing crab of the genus Gelasimus, of many species. The male has one claw very much enlarged, and often holds it in a position similar to that in which a musician holds a fiddle, hence the name; called also fiddler crab, calling crab, soldier crab, and fighting crab.

(Zool.) The common European sandpiper (Tringoides hypoleucus); so called because it continually oscillates its body.

Fiddler crab. (Zool.) See Fiddler, n., 2.

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"Fiddler" Quotes from Famous Books

... protested. "It was the tears I would have dried. Tears, idle tears, I know not whence they come; tears from the depth of some despairing fiddler." ...

— The Merryweathers • Laura E. Richards

... way we value the work before us. In it Carleton is the historian of the peasantry rather than a dramatist. The fiddler and piper, the seanachie and seer, the match-maker and dancing-master, and a hundred characters beside are here brought before you, moving, acting, playing, plotting, and gossiping! You are never ...

— Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry • Thomas Davis

... said he, "and these two gallant animals will never recover it after the severe day's hunting they've had. Poor Fiddler and Piper," he exclaimed, "this has proved a melancholy day to you both. What is to be done, Andy? I am scarcely able to stand, and feel as if my ...

— Willy Reilly - The Works of William Carleton, Volume One • William Carleton

... of the vaulted room sat a fiddler and a fine-featured gipsy-girl with a zither; their instruments lay in their laps, and they seemed to be looking about them ...

— Immensee • Theodore W. Storm

... to his co-worker: "this fiddler is crazier than a flock of cuckoos. If he can crack crockery with violin sound vibrations, is it not possible, by carrying the vibrations to a much higher power, that he could crack a pile of stone, steel, brick ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 • Various

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