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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

... Home" to the Sailors of France. Old foes turn new friends as their reason grows riper; "All hands for Skylarking!" A measure we'll dance, With friendship for fiddler and pleasure for piper. 'Tis a good many years since they sought our white shore; Once more at hands'-grip we are glad to have got 'em. As to Jingos or Chauvinists,—out on the bores! Such Jonahs should promptly be plumped to the bottom; ...

— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, August 22, 1891 • Various

... which Hadgi gave him to understand, that he had been ruined by his wife, who, having robbed him of all his cash and valuable effects, had eloped from his house with one of his own customers, who appeared in the character of a French count, but was in reality no other than an Italian fiddler; that, in consequence of this retreat, he, the husband, was disabled from paying a considerable sum which he had set apart for his wine merchant, who being disappointed in his expectation, took out an execution against his effects; and the rest of his creditors following his example, ...

— The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Volume I • Tobias Smollett

... know a violinist who would say, "If I were not a genius, I could not play so well with such little practice." The poor fellow did not know how poor a fiddler he really was. Well did Strickland Gillilan, America's great poet-humorist, say, "Egotism is the opiate that Nature administers to deaden the pains ...

— The University of Hard Knocks • Ralph Parlette

... and sawed away on "Honest John," "The Devil's Dream," "Haste to the Wedding," and "The Fisher's Hornpipe." He lost all sense of being a millionnaire, and returned to his simple, unsophisticated self. The others cheered him because he had gold. I cheered him because he was a good old "corduroy fiddler." ...

— The Trail of the Goldseekers - A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse • Hamlin Garland

... to have been called Out of Paganini—founded upon that distinguished fiddler's life, although (as the Author says) "it is necessarily speculative ...

— Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, September 3, 1887 • Various

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