Definition of "fiddler" in English

noun

1. One who plays the fiddle.

2. One who fiddles; a cheat.

   • We were the self-controlled, cautious, nifty merchants, decorous fiddlers of accounts, hoarders of wealth, excellent bribers, family and community creatures governed by manners.

3. One who fiddles or tweaks.

4. 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.

5. The common European sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos); so called because it habitually wags its tail up and down resembling the back and forth movement of a fiddler.

6. A large species of cicada, Macrotristria angularis, of eastern Australia; cherry nose.

7. (UK, slang, obsolete) A coin of little value: a sixpence or a farthing.

8. (nautical, slang) The capstan-house on a steamer.