A fiddler.
·noun One who scrapes. II. Scraper ·noun One who plays awkwardly on a violin. III. Scraper ·noun A...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A fiddler; also one who scrapes plates for mezzotinto prints. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
[from the Anglo-Saxon screope]. A small triangular iron instrument, having two or three sharp edges....
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun A narrow passage of water; as, the Gut of Canso. II. Gut ·vt To take out the bowels from; to ...
A somewhat coarse term for the main part of a strait or channel, as the Gut of Gibraltar, Gut of Can...
A triangular sail set above the skysail; if square it would be a moonsail, and if set above that, a ...
·noun A <<Glutton>>. ...
Small beer; called beer-a-bumble--will burst one's guts before it will make one tumble. ...
A term applied to the sea-laces or Fucus filum. (See sea-catgut.) ...
The blubber of a whale laid out in long slices. ...
The whale's blubber; as well as the part of the hold into which it is thrown before being barrelled ...
A miserly purser. ...
The short allowance money. ...