EGAVE

fiddler

About 0.51 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun One who plays the fiddle.
  2. noun One who fiddles; a cheat.
  3. noun One who fiddles or tweaks.
  4. 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.
  5. noun 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. noun A large species of cicada, Macrotristria angularis, of eastern Australia; cherry nose.
  7. noun A coin of little value: a sixpence or a farthing.
  8. noun The capstan-house on a steamer.

Similar words

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