Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who plays on a fife.
Wiktionary
- n. One who plays on a fife.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who plays on a fife.
Examples
“Now the fifer was the clarionet-player's brother; and he, turning on the trumpeter, roared --”
“Previously you just turned up and paid at the turnstiles. (my emphasis) fifer”
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
“Despite their seemingly irreconcilable differences, however, the feuding drummer and fifer made an appearance on Rachel Maddow's MSNBC show Tuesday night and even played a little number.”
“I believe Krauthammer called it 'an uncertain trumpet'. come to think of it, he looks a bit like a second-rate trumpet player. fifer”
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
“But how many others thought, or even still think the same way? fifer”
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
“Woolwich, sitting on his stool in the corner, and beckons that fifer to him.”
““Faith, Miley, thou wouldst make a good little drummer or fifer!” says papa.”
“We have got a piano and a parlor organ in the cabin, and a snare drummer, a base drummer and a fifer…If they have a choir in that ship I mean to run it.”
“Sieur Schneider, the fifer of the hundred Swiss, in the house of whom I lived at Versailles.”
“This young fifer, was he one of the dragoons whom I used to hear in the mornings at Doncières?”
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Fife and Drum Words
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chained_bear "Going on a little further, we were surprised by 300 rebel cavalry, and repulsed, but retreated in good order, the gunboats covering our retreat. I regret to say we had the misfortune to lose Samuel Turner (colored) in our retreat. He was instantly killed, and his body remains in the rebel hands. He being the fifer, I miss him very much as a friend and companion, as he was beloved by all on board. We also had four slightly wounded."
—George Reed, a black sailor aboard the Union gunboat Commodore Reed, May 4, 1864, printed in the Christian Recorder Mar 11, 2009