CROWDS

A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.

"After the movie let out, a crowd of people pushed through the exit doors."

Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.

"There was a crowd of toys pushed beneath the couch where the children were playing."

(with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.

To press forward; to advance by pushing.

"The man crowded into the packed room."

To press together or collect in numbers

"They crowded through the archway and into the park."

To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.

"He tried to crowd too many cows into the cow-pen."

(now dialectal) A fiddle.

To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

An archaic stringed instrument associated particularly with Wales, though once played widely in Europe, and characterized by a vaulted back and enough space for the player to stop each of the six strings on the fingerboard.