Crwth is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 33 anagrams from letters in crwth (chrtw).
1830-40; Welsh; cognate with Irish cruit harp, lyre
The second class of musical bards was composed of the players upon the crwth, of six strings.
The word is possibly of Celtic origin (Welsh crwth) and a doublet of the archaic crowd, or crowth, a fiddle.
The rebec was not known in Arabia until nearly two centuries after we find the crwth mentioned by Venance Fortunatus.
The modern Welsh “crwth” is not a harp but a “rotta” (see Crowd).
Very early we find the crwth in the hands of the Celtic players, as noticed in chapter VI.
The crwth, crowd, crouth did not undergo this third transition even when the bow was used to set the strings in vibration.
The instrument is well known to this day in Wales as the crwth.
This instrument became the crwth, and there was no further development.
The crwth presents still more troublesome questions, which we must admit are still less hopeful of solution.
A crwth, an antiquated Welsh instrument of the fiddle class.
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