Harp″er (härp″ẽr), n. [AS. hearpere.] 1. A player on the harp; a minstrel.
The murmuring pines and the hemlocks...
Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Longfellow.
2. A brass coin bearing the emblem of a harp, — formerly current in Ireland. B. Jonson.