crowder
See also: Crowder
English
Etymology 1
Noun
crowder (plural crowders)
Etymology 2
From Middle English crowdere; equivalent to crowd + -er.
Noun
crowder (plural crowders)
- One who plays on a crwth, a string instrument of Welsh origin; a fiddler.
- Sir Philip Sidney
- Certainly, I must confess my own barbarousness, I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder […]
- Sir Philip Sidney
Derived terms
- Surnames: Crewther, Crowder, Crother, Crowther, MacWhirter, MacWhorter
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “crowder”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)