crowder

See also: Crowder

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹaʊdə(ɹ)/

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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 (Welsh string instrument); 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 […]

   • 1888, John Rhŷs, Celtic Heathendom, Lecture V:

     This comparison is all the more relevant as Uthr Ben represents himself in the Taliessin poem as bard, harper, piper, crowder —in a word, seven-score professionals all in one, an idea to be faintly traced in the Mabinogi of Branwen, when it makes Brân, on his expedition to Ireland, wade across with the musicians of his court on his shoulders

   • 1929, by Francesco Maria Guazzo, translated by Edward Allen Ashwin, Compendium Maleficarum, Book 1/Chapter 12:

     When Johann of Hembach was scarcely more than a child, his witch mother took him to the nocturnal assembly of demons and, because he was so clever a crowder, ordered him to play his kit and to climb up a tree from which he could be heard better.

Derived terms

• Surnames: Crewther, Crowder, Crother, Crowther, MacWhirter, MacWhorter

References

• “crowder”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.