Crag
name, noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A rocky outcrop; a rugged steep cliff or rock. Northern-England, countable, uncountable
""Have, then, thy wish!"—he whistled shrill, / And he was answered from the hill; / Wild as the scream of the curlieu, / From crag to crag the signal flew."
- 2 The neck or throat. dialectal, obsolete
- 3 a steep rugged rock or cliff wordnet
- 4 A rough, broken fragment of rock. countable, uncountable
- 5 A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Pliocene to Pleistocene epochs. countable, uncountable
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- 6 A game played with three dice, similar to Yahtzee. uncountable
- 1 A dice game similar to Yahtzee.
Example
More examples"And then he realized that his wanderings had come to an end, and that there, on that barren crag, he was about to die."
Etymology
From 13th century Middle English crag, from Middle Irish crec, a contracted form of Middle Irish carrac (compare Irish creig, Scottish Gaelic creag), possibly ultimately from the late Proto-Indo-European/substrate *kar (“stone, hard”); see also Old Armenian քար (kʻar, “stone”), Sanskrit खर (khara, “hard, solid”), Welsh carreg (“stone”).
A variant of craw.
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