1. a person who plays the fiddle or violin
2. a person who fidgets or tinkers with things
Usage: informal
3. a type of small crab with one enlarged claw
Usage: zoology

Examples

• The fiddler played a lively tune at the folk festival.
• She hired a talented fiddler for the wedding reception.
• Stop being such a fiddler and leave the radio alone.
• He’s always been a fiddler, taking apart clocks and gadgets.
• The fiddler crab waved its large claw in the air.
• We watched fiddler crabs scurrying across the mudflats.
• The old fiddler knew hundreds of traditional songs.