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▪ I. ˈcrowder1 Hist. or dial. Also 5 crowdere, 6 crouder, -ar, 6–8 crowther. [f. crowd n.1 or v.2 + -er1.] One who plays a crowd; a fiddler.
c1450Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 572/26 Choricista, a crowdere. a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) Ii v, Crouders, dauncers, mummers. a1661Fuller Worthies ii. 306 Sung but by some blind Crowder. 1731A. Hill Adv. Poets Ep. 4 To tune his Praise..and expect, like his Brother Crowders, to be paid for his Scraping. 1832J. Bree St. Herbert's Isle 19 When mute the harp, nor wandering crowder near. ▪ II. crowder2|ˈkraʊdə(r)| [f. crowd v.1 + -er1.] One who crowds: see the verb.
1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 462 A certein old crafty Crowder laden throughly with the Popes Bulles raunged the coastes. 1812H. & J. Smith Rej. Addr. xvii. (1873) 161 Contending crowders shout. |