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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fiddler" Quotes from Famous Books

... There's no get out of it. Here's Jim Mason with me, and we've got orders to stun you and pack you if you show fight. The blessed fiddler from Mudgee didn't turn up. Dave Regan burst his concertina, and they're in ...

— Over the Sliprails • Henry Lawson

... bands of music that seem to itinerate everywhere about the country. It consisted of a young woman who played the harp, a bass-viol player, a fiddler, a flutist, and a bugler, besides a little child, of whom, I suppose, the woman was the mother. They sat down on a bench by the roadside, opposite the house, and played several tunes, and by and by the waiter brought them a large pitcher of ale, which they quaffed with ...

— Passages From the English Notebooks, Complete • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... on a visit to Dr. Sheridan, they were informed that a beggar's wedding was about to be celebrated. Sheridan played well upon the violin; Swift therefore proposed that he should go to the place where the ceremony was to be performed, disguised as a blind fiddler, while he attended him as his man. Thus accoutred they set out, and were received by the jovial crew with great acclamation. They had plenty of good cheer, and never was a more joyous wedding seen. All was mirth and frolic; the beggars told stories, played tricks, cracked jokes, ...

— The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes - Historical, Literary, and Humorous--A New Selection • Various

... ($600.00 in our money) for a quantity of roses, with which she caused the floor of the hall to be covered to a depth of eighteen inches. These flowers were retained in a very fine net, to allow the guests to walk over them. According to Suetonius, Nero (the fiddler of burning Rome and the tyrant par excellence of the ancient day) gave a fete at one time on the Gulf of Baiae when inns were established on the banks, and ladies of noble blood played hostesses to the occasion, the roses alone costing more than ...

— Volume 10 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann

... a wonderfully wicked world. To find out the two vagabonds would have been hopeless; unless I could have followed them to the Back of Beyond, where the mare foaled the fiddler. ...

— The Life of Mansie Wauch - Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself • David Macbeth Moir

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