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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: for Henry Olney,, published 1595, →OCLC; republished as Edward Arber, editor, An Apologie for Poetrie (English Reprints), London: , 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[…]
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)