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fiddler 音标拼音: [f'ɪdəlɚ] [f'ɪdlɚ] n. 拉小提琴者,爱玩乐者 拉小提琴者,爱玩乐者 fiddler n 1: a musician who plays the violin [ synonym: { violinist}, { fiddler}] 2: someone who manipulates in a nervous or unconscious manner [ synonym: { twiddler}, { fiddler}] 3: an unskilled person who tries to fix or mend [ synonym: { tinkerer}, { fiddler}] Sandpiper \ Sand" pi` per\, n. 1. ( Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small limicoline game birds belonging to { Tringa}, { Actodromas}, { Ereunetes}, and various allied genera of the family { Tringidae}. [ 1913 Webster] 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 ({ Tringa alpina}); the purple sandpiper ({ Tringa maritima}: the red- breasted sandpiper, or knot ({ Tringa 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 hypoleucus} syn. { Tringoides hypoleucus}), called also { fiddler}, { peeper}, { pleeps}, { weet- weet}, and { summer snipe}. Some of the small plovers and tattlers are also called sandpipers. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Zool.) A small lamprey eel; the pride. [ 1913 Webster] { Curlew sandpiper}. See under { Curlew}. { Stilt sandpiper}. See under { Stilt}. [ 1913 Webster]
Fiddler \ Fid" dler\, n. [ AS. fi[ eth] elere.] 1. One who plays on a fiddle or violin. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Zool.) 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 { fiddler crab}, { calling crab}, { soldier crab}, and { fighting crab}. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Zool.) The common European sandpiper ({ Tringoides hypoleucus}); -- so called because it continually oscillates its body. [ 1913 Webster] { Fiddler crab}. ( Zool.) See { Fiddler}, n., 2. [ 1913 Webster]
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