Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Harper

Harper (harp"ẽr) , noun

[Anglo-Saxon 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