Definition of "fifers" [fifers]

• Plural form of fifer. (noun)

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• "Five squealing fifers and three thundering cymbalists provided background noise for a middle-aged kender with a black topknot, who yelled through cupped hands from a bench atop a seriously listing wagon."
• "Not so the drummers and fifers attached to the companies, who suffered the cruel destiny of the massacre."
• "Clothed in the colors of the colonel, they were fifers or drummers and subject to military discipline."