Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as crowd.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun An ancient musical instrument. See 4th crowd.

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  • noun Alternative form of crwth.

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Examples

  • However Sacob's written submission questioned whether the budget struck the correct balance between promoting and creating economic crowth and job creation and social delivery.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • The word is possibly of Celtic origin (Welsh crwth) and a doublet of the archaic crowd, or crowth, a fiddle.

    The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909

  • ` ` Was a bee crowth a 'the _Caf the Rfugis, _' 'continued the young man.

    Old Creole Days 1879

  • ` ` Z-afrai ',' 'said Mazaro; ` ` d'they frai' to do an'teen een d-these-a crowth. ''

    Old Creole Days 1879

  • Scotland has three -- the harp, the tabor and the crowth or crowd.

    A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present 1874

  • On Sunday, May 9, Studio Cantilena will play a Mother¹s Day program with Renaissance dances for a recorder ensemble, medieval two-part songs to the Virgin Mother and old Gregorian chants accompanied by crowth (an old Welsh fiddle), Tibetan singing bowls, and alpenhorn.

    Kootenay Rockies - News 2010

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