crowder

See also: Crowder

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹaʊdə(ɹ)/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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Etymology 1

From crowd +‎ -er.

Noun

crowder (plural crowders)

1. One who crowds or pushes.

Derived terms

• crowder pea

Etymology 2

From Middle English crowdere; equivalent to crowd +‎ -er.

Alternative forms

• crowther

Noun

crowder (plural crowders)

1. One who plays on a crwth, a string instrument of Welsh origin; a fiddler.
   • a. 1587 (date written), Phillip Sidney [i.e., Philip Sidney], An Apologie for Poetrie. […], London: […] [James Roberts] for Henry Olney, […], published 1595, →OCLC; republished as Edward Arber, editor, An Apologie for Poetrie (English Reprints), London: [Alexander Murray & Son], 1 April 1868, →OCLC:

     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 […]

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)