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Crowder

//ˈkɹaʊdə(ɹ)// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname originating as an occupation. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A town in Panola County and Quitman County, Mississippi, United States. countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    An unincorporated community in Scott County, Missouri, United States. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    A town in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, United States. countable, uncountable
Noun
  1. 1
    One who crowds or pushes.
  2. 2
    One who plays on a crwth (Welsh string instrument); a fiddler.

    "Certainly, I must confess my own barbarousness, I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder […]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From crowd + -er.

Etymology 2

From Middle English crowdere; equivalent to crowd + -er.

Etymology 3

From crowder, an occupational surname for someone who played the crwth.

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