fiddler

noun8

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. — 2005
3. •
   One who fiddles or tweaks.

   • The community of radio amateurs—trespassing fiddlers on the cutting edge of technological possibilities—prefigured the geek community that was to inhabit Silicon Valley 50 years later. — 2012
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. •
   (slang) The capstan-house on a steamer.
8. •
   (slang, no longer used) A coin of little value: a sixpence or a farthing.