Cragfast

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Stranded on a crag (inaccessible rock).

    "a cragfast sheep"

Adjective
  1. 1
    stranded on or as if on a crag wordnet

Synonyms

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stuck

Example

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"Eventually, having seen the dangers of the ledge still more clearly, and the body of a sheep which had become cragfast at the same spot, he spotted a solution to his difficulty. As he looked down he could see stones on the ledge far beneath him which must have been piled there by a shepherd trying vainly to reach the cragfast sheep whose body he had just passed."

Etymology

From crag (“rocky outcrop”) + fast.

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