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fiddler

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fid=dler

CIDE DICTIONARY

fiddlern. [AS. fi.].
  •  One who plays on a fiddle or violin.  [1913 Webster]
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]
  •  The common European sandpiper (Tringoides hypoleucus); -- so called because it continually oscillates its body.  [1913 Webster]
Fiddler crab. (Zoöl.) See Fiddler, n., 2.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

fiddler, n.
1 a fiddle-player.
2 sl. a swindler, a cheat.
3 any small N. American crab of the genus Uca, the male having one of its claws held in a position like a violinist's arm.

Etymology
OE fithelere (as FIDDLE)

ROGET THESAURUS

fiddler

Musician

N musician, artiste, performer, player, minstrel, bard, accompanist, accordionist, instrumentalist, organist, pianist, violinist, flautist, harper, fiddler, fifer, trumpeter, piper, drummer, catgut scraper, band, orchestral waits, vocalist, melodist, singer, warbler, songster, chaunter, chauntress, songstress, cantatrice, choir, quire, chorister, chorus, chorus singer, liedertafel, nightingale, philomel, thrush, siren, bulbul, mavis, Pierides, sacred nine, Orpheus, Apollo, the Muses Erato, Euterpe, Terpsichore, tuneful nine, tuneful quire, composer, performance, execution, touch, expression, solmization, playing, musical, adagio, andante.


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