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Crag

//kɹæɡ// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A dice game similar to Yahtzee.
Noun
  1. 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. 2
    The neck or throat. dialectal, obsolete
  3. 3
    a steep rugged rock or cliff wordnet
  4. 4
    A rough, broken fragment of rock. countable, uncountable
  5. 5
    A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Pliocene to Pleistocene epochs. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    A game played with three dice, similar to Yahtzee. uncountable

Etymology

Etymology 1

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”).

Etymology 2

A variant of craw.

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