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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

- The crwth (/kruːθ/ KROOTH, Welsh: [kruːθ]), also called a crowd or rote or crotta, is a bowed lyre, a type of stringed instrument, ****ociated particularly...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cimboa (cape verde) Cizhonghu (China) Cornstalk fiddle Cretan lyra (Greece) Crwth (Wales) Daguangxian Dahu (China) Đàn gáo (Vietnam) Đàn hồ (Vietnam) Đàn...
- Traditional instruments of Wales include the telyn deires (triple harp), fiddle, crwth (bowed lyre) and the pibgorn (hornpipe). Male voice choirs emerged in the...
- lyra, the medieval bowed instrument of the Byzantine Empire Cretan Lyra Crwth Gadulka Gudok Gusle Hurdy-gurdy also known as the wheel fiddle Kamancheh...
- 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: ⟨aw⟩...
- music it encodes.[citation needed] Another distinctive instrument is the crwth, also a stringed instrument of a type once widespread in northern Europe...
- to be confused with the Welsh instrument of the same name (see Crwth). The Welsh crwth (including the later addition of a bow) goes back to the Mediaeval...