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Definition of crwth

Crwth
Crwth Crwth (kr[=oo]th), n. [W.] (Mus.) See 4th Crowd.
crwth
Crowd Crowd, n. [W. crwth; akin to Gael. cruit. Perh. named from its shape, and akin to Gr. kyrto`s curved, and E. curve. Cf. Rote.] An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow. [Written also croud, crowth, cruth, and crwth.] A lackey that . . . can warble upon a crowd a little. --B. Jonson.

Meaning of crwth from wikipedia

- See Rotte for the psaltery, or Rotta for the plucked lyre. The crwth (/kruːθ/ KROOTH, Welsh: [kruːθ]), also called a crowd or rote or crotta, is a bowed...
- the bowed lyres with a fingerboard was the "modern" (c. 1485–1800) Welsh crwth. It had several predecessors both in the British Isles and in Continental...
- Traditional instruments of Wales include the telyn deires (triple harp), fiddle, crwth (bowed lyre) and the pibgorn (hornpipe). Male voice choirs emerged in the...
- use the talharpa.) It is similar to the Finnish jouhikko and the Welsh crwth. Jouhikko, a close relative of talharpa, is still known in Finland. The...
- vowel sound, /oʊ/, in the word pwn, and in the Welsh loanwords cwm and crwth, it retains the Welsh pronunciation, /ʊ/. ⟨w⟩ is also used in digraphs:...
- sound. Thus words borrowed from Welsh may use ⟨w⟩ this way, such as: The crwth (pronounced /ˈkrʊθ/ or /ˈkruːθ/, also spelled cruth in English) is a Welsh...
- Cizhonghu (China) Cornstalk fiddle (United States) Cretan lyra (Greece) Crwth (Wales) Daguangxian (China) Dahu (China) Dan gao (Vietnam) Dan ho (Vietnam)...
- century. He enjo**** music, including Welsh music and the newly invented crwth instrument, as well as musical organs. He did not take part in jousting...
- contemporary Christian musician Crowder (surname) Crowder, someone who plays the crwth, a musical stringed instrument Crowd (disambiguation) Crowders This disambiguation...
- produce electric guitars.[citation needed] Bowed instruments include: cello, crwth, double b****, erhu, fiddle, hudok, morin khuur, nyckelharpa, hurdy-gurdy...