Definitions for crwths

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Spelling: [krooth]
IPA: /kruθ/

Crwths is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 62 anagrams from letters in crwths (chrstw).

Definitions for crwths

noun

  1. crowd2 .

Origin of crwths

1830-40; Welsh; cognate with Irish cruit harp, lyre

Examples for crwths

This instrument became the crwth, and there was no further development.

The instrument is well known to this day in Wales as the crwth.

The crwth presents still more troublesome questions, which we must admit are still less hopeful of solution.

The crwth, crowd, crouth did not undergo this third transition even when the bow was used to set the strings in vibration.

The rebec was not known in Arabia until nearly two centuries after we find the crwth mentioned by Venance Fortunatus.

A crwth, an antiquated Welsh instrument of the fiddle class.

The second class of musical bards was composed of the players upon the crwth, of six strings.

The modern Welsh “crwth” is not a harp but a “rotta” (see Crowd).

The word is possibly of Celtic origin (Welsh crwth) and a doublet of the archaic crowd, or crowth, a fiddle.

Very early we find the crwth in the hands of the Celtic players, as noticed in chapter VI.

Word Value for crwths
Scrable

13

Words with friends

13

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