Crag

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Crag \Crag\ (kr[a^]g), n. [W. craig; akin to Gael. creag, Corn.
     karak, Armor. karrek.]
     1. A steep, rugged rock; a rough, broken cliff, or point of a
        rock, on a ledge.
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              From crag to crag the signal flew.    --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
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     2. (Geol.) A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with
        shells, of the Tertiary age.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Crag \Crag\, n. [A form of craw: cf. D. kraag neck, collar, G.
     kragen. See {Craw}.]
     1. The neck or throat [Obs.]
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              And bear the crag so stiff and so state. --Spenser.
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     2. The neck piece or scrag of mutton. --Johnson.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  crag
       n : a steep rugged rock or cliff

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  70 Moby Thesaurus words for "crag":
     aa, abyssal rock, basalt, bedrock, block lava, bluff, brash,
     breccia, cliff, cog, comb, conglomerate, druid stone, escarpment,
     face, fang, festooned pahoehoe, gneiss, granite, harrow,
     igneous rock, jag, lava, limestone, living rock, magma, mantlerock,
     metamorphic rock, monolith, pahoehoe, palisade, palisades, peak,
     pecten, pillow lava, porphyry, precipice, projection,
     pudding stone, rake, ratchet, regolith, rock, ropy lava, rubble,
     rubblestone, sandstone, sarsen, sawtooth, scar, scarp, schist,
     scoria, scree, sedimentary rock, shelly pahoehoe, snag, snaggle,
     spire, sprocket, spur, steep, steeple, stone, talus, tooth, tor,
     tufa, tuff, wall