Crowder

Quick meaning: Crowder is a noun meaning One who crowds or pushes.

Meaning

One who crowds or pushes.

More Meanings

1. One who plays on a crwth (Welsh string instrument); a fiddler.

Example Sentences

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 […]

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.

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

Word Forms

• crowders
• crowther

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pusher, crowdsourcer, shover, obtruder, crowdworker, outcrier.

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