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• a variation of crowd.

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”

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Doubtless this is why among the Welsh hills the old saying used to be "The spirits follow the crwth."

From Aylwin by Watts-Dunton, Theodore

The crwth, crowd, crouth did not undergo this third transition even when the bow was used to set the strings in vibration.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various

The crwth is followed by the rebec, which most of us know better from Milton’s lines— “When the merry bells ring round And the jocund rebecks sound”— than in any more practical manner. 

From Springtime and Other Essays by Darwin, Francis, Sir

This instrument became the crwth, and there was no further development.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various

For while the crwth was in Europe two centuries before the violin, the improvement of this instrument was due to stimulation from quite another quarter.

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