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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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crwth

The instrument is tuned thus: At the beginning of the 19th century, William Bingley2 heard a Welsh peasant playing national airs on a crwth strung as follows:—.

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

I wonder whether they can draw a livin' mullo up to the clouds, same as my crwth can draw one to Snowdon?'

From Aylwin by Theodore Watts-Dunton

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 Sir Francis Darwin

The second class of musical bards was composed of the players upon the crwth, of six strings.

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

The bow is not mentioned by Fortunatus, and there is no ground whatever for believing that the Welsh crwth was played with a bow in the 6th century, or indeed for several centuries after.

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