crwth

American  

[krooth] / kruθ /

noun

Music.

1. crowd.

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crwth British  

/ kruːθ /

noun

1. an ancient stringed instrument of Celtic origin similar to the cithara but bowed in later types

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Etymology

Origin of crwth

First recorded in 1830–40; from Welsh; cognate with Irish cruit “harp, lyre”

Example Sentences

I dessay you've often heard the sayin' "The sperrits follow the crwth."

From Aylwin by Watts-Dunton, Theodore

I now perceived the crwth and bow upon the table.

From Aylwin by Watts-Dunton, Theodore

I'm goin' to play on my crwth and sing the same song now.

From Aylwin by Watts-Dunton, Theodore

The crwth presents still more troublesome questions, which we must admit are still less hopeful of solution.

From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock)

This proposal met my wishes entirely, and under the pretence of going to look at something on the Carnarvon road we managed to escape from the party, Sinfi still carrying her crwth and bow.

From Aylwin by Watts-Dunton, Theodore