1 a person who plays the violin (= small, stringed instrument), esp. in music popular in rural areas
I would sooner see that fiddler than any other fiddler in the world.
It hurts me all the time to think I was lured under those guns by a silly old fiddler and a couple of silly sailors dancing to his silly tune.
The fiddlers had to scrape so hard, that they gave out about three o'clock, and we had to give up the dancing, and go home, very much disappointed.
The young baron will get off merely with a snubbing, I know that well enough, and all the blame will fall upon the fiddler.
Under an old oak in a green place a fiddler and a piper were playing, and youths and maidens were dancing in the brown light.
Isotopically, fiddler crabs appear to be an exception to the adage that 'you are what you eat'.
Ballad-singers retailed topical rhymes set to well-known tunes, fiddlers and pipers played in alehouses, while drums and fifes accompanied processions and marching soldiers.
Stable nitrogen isotopic data for fiddler crabs are few and limited to saltmarshes.