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Meaning:
Noun:
- A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
- A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
- now dialectal A fiddle.
- obsolete A crwth, an Ancient Celtic plucked string instrument.
- Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
- (with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
Source: Wiktionary
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Verb:
- intransitive To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng
- intransitive To urge or press forward; to force one's self; as, a man crowds into a room
- nautical (''of a square-rigged ship'') transitive To carry excessive sail
- nautical To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way
- transitive To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity.
- transitive To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
- transitive To press or drive together; to mass together.
- transitive To push, to press, to shove.
Source: Wiktionary
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