crowder

See also: Crowder

English

Etymology 1

crowd +‎ -er

Noun

crowder (plural crowders)

  1. One who crowds or pushes.

Etymology 2

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

Noun

crowder (plural crowders)

  1. 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 […]

Derived terms

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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