crag

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[ krag ]
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noun
  1. a steep, rugged rock; rough, broken, projecting part of a rock.

Origin of crag

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1275–1325; Middle English <British Celtic; akin to Welsh craig rock

Other words from crag

  • craglike, adjective

Words Nearby crag

Other definitions for crag (2 of 2)

crag2
[ krag ]

nounScot. and North England.
  1. the neck, throat, or craw.

Origin of crag

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1425–75; late Middle English cragge<Middle Dutch crage neck, throat; cognate with German Kragen collar; cf. craw

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How to use crag in a sentence

  • At the present the crag-beds are the most interesting feature to the visitor, especially if he be of a geological turn.

    East Anglia | J. Ewing Ritchie
  • It was with great difficulty however that I clambered down the side of the crag, for the lava just there was porous and bubbly.

    The White Man's Foot | Grant Allen
  • I had fallen or rolled by stages the whole way down the crag, and was lying on my side on the Floor of the Hawaiians!

    The White Man's Foot | Grant Allen
  • One crag rises to the height of about four hundred feet, with an almost perpendicular surface, sloping down to the lake below.

  • Pallastown had been like froth on a stone, a castle on a floating, golden crag.

    The Planet Strappers | Raymond Zinke Gallun

British Dictionary definitions for crag (1 of 2)

crag

/ (kræɡ) /


noun
  1. a steep rugged rock or peak

Origin of crag

1
C13: of Celtic origin; related to Old Welsh creik rock

British Dictionary definitions for Crag (2 of 2)

Crag1

/ (kræɡ) /


noun
  1. a formation of shelly sandstone in E England, deposited during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs

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