A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1450-1515
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Croud(e, n. [ME. croude, crowde, earlier crouth(e, Welsh crwth.] An early form of fiddle.c1450-2 Howlat 758.
The crovde, the monycordis, the gittyrnis gay c1515 Asloan MS I. 317/3.
Than was the croude fund in Grece a1500 Buke of the Sevyne Sagis 2522.
Thai … With trumpe and talburn playit lowde, Harpe, lute, gittern, clarschaw & croude 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. i. 376.
In modulatioun hard I play and sing, … On croud, lute, harp, with mony gudlie spring
