noun. One who plays a fiddle, violin, or some similar instrument; a violinist.

noun. A sixpence.

noun. In the United States, a fiddler-crab.

noun. The common sandpiper, Tringoides hypoleucus, so called from its habit of balancing the body as if on a pivot.

noun. A fish, Trygonorhina fasciata, a member of the family Rhinobatidæ.

noun. One who plays on a fiddle or violin.

noun. 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.

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

noun. See Fiddler, n., 2.

noun. One who plays the fiddle.

noun. someone who manipulates in a nervous or unconscious manner

noun. a musician who plays the violin

noun. an unskilled person who tries to fix or mend

"Twelfth day the fiddler lays his head in the lap of some one of the wenches, and the _mainstyr fiddler_ asks who such a maid, or such a maid, naming all the girls one after another, shall marry, to which he answers according to his own whim, or agreeable to the intimacies he has taken notice of during the time of merriment, and whatever he says is absolutely depended upon as an oracle; and if he couple two people who have an aversion to each other, tears and vexation succeed the mirth; this they call "cutting off the fiddler's head," for after this he is dead for a whole year."

fiddler's fare  fiddler's green  fiddler's money  fiddler's muscle  

fiddle  pay the fiddler  

manipulator  unskilled person  

riddler  

bassist  drummer  fortuneteller  guitarist  juggler  

calling crab  fiddler crab  fighting crab  soldier crab