fiddler : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: fiddler	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for fiddler
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fiddler n a musician who plays the violin [syn: violinist, fiddler] someone who manipulates in a nervous or unconscious manner Synonym(s): twiddler, fiddler an unskilled person who tries to fix or mend Synonym(s): tinkerer, fiddler
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sandpiper \Sand"pi`per\, n. 1. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of small limicoline game birds belonging to {Tringa}, {Actodromas}, {Ereunetes}, and various allied genera of the family {Tringid[91]}. Note: The most important North American species are the pectoral sandpiper ({Tringa maculata}), called also {brownback}, {grass snipe}, and {jacksnipe}; the red-backed, or black-breasted, sandpiper, or dunlin ({T. alpina}); the purple sandpiper ({T. maritima}: the red-breasted sandpiper, or knot ({T. canutus}); the semipalmated sandpiper ({Ereunetes pusillus}); the spotted sandpiper, or teeter-tail ({Actitis macularia}); the buff-breasted sandpiper ({Tryngites subruficollis}), and the Bartramian sandpiper, or upland plover. See under {Upland}. Among the European species are the dunlin, the knot, the ruff, the sanderling, and the common sandpiper ({Actitis, [or] Tringoides, hypoleucus}), called also {fiddler}, {peeper}, {pleeps}, {weet-weet}, and {summer snipe}. Some of the small plovers and tattlers are also called sandpipers. 2. (Zo[94]l.) A small lamprey eel; the pride. {Curlew sandpiper}. See under {Curlew}. {Stilt sandpiper}. See under {Stilt}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fiddler \Fid"dler\, n. [AS. fi[?]elere.] 1. One who plays on a fiddle or violin. 2. (Zo[94]l.) 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}. 3. (Zo[94]l.) The common European sandpiper ({Tringoides hypoleucus}); -- so called because it continually oscillates its body. {Fiddler crab}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Fiddler}, n., 2.