crag

A crag (sense 1).

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /kɹæɡ/

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• Rhymes: -æɡ

From 13th century Middle English crag, from Middle Irish crec, a contracted form of Old 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”).

crag (countable and uncountable, plural crags)

1. (Northern England) A rocky outcrop; a rugged steep cliff or rock.
   • 1810, Walter Scott, “Canto V. The Combat.”, in The Lady of the Lake; […], Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, →OCLC, stanza IX, page 202:

     "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.

   • 1835, Alfred Tennyson, “‘Break, Break, Break’”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, stanza 3, page 229:

     Break, break, break, / At the foot of thy crags, O Sea! / But the tender grace of a day that is dead / Will never come back to me.

2. A rough, broken fragment of rock.
3. (geology) A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Pliocene to Pleistocene epochs.
4. (uncountable) A game played with three dice, similar to Yahtzee.

• craig

A variant of craw.

crag (plural crags)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) The neck or throat.

• Dravidian Origins and the West: Newly Discovered Ties with the Ancient Culture and Languages, Including Basque, of the Pre-Indo-European Mediterranean World, p. 325
• Webster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition
• Scigliano, Eric (2007): Michelangelo's Mountain: The Quest For Perfection in the Marble Quarries of Carrara, p. 84

• crag on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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• cragge, kragge

From Middle Irish crec, from Old Irish carrac, possibly 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”).

• IPA^(key): /kraɡ/

crag (plural cragges)

1. cliff

• English: crag
• Yola: craggès

• “crag, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.