"Fiddler" Definition

Definitions for the word "Fiddler" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
One who plays on a fiddle or violin.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
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 calling crab, soldier crab, and fighting crab.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
The common European sandpiper (Tringoides hypoleucus); -- so called because it continually oscillates its body.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
1 fiddle-player. 2 slang swindler, cheat. 3 small n. American crab.
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
5. slang
a sharper, a cheat; also a careless, negligent, or dilatory person. On board some ocean steamers the FIDDLER is the capstan-house, the only place on board where passengers are permitted to smoke. The term FIDDLER is easily traceable to the fact that, while the seamen are working the capstan-bars, a man sometimes plays on the fiddle to cheer them at their toil.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
6. slang
a sixpence. Fiddler’s money is small money; generally from the old custom of each couple at a dance paying the fiddler sixpence.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
7. slang
or FADGE, a farthing.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864

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