crag
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Etymology 1[edit]
13th century Middle English, of Celtic origin, possibly from the late Proto-Indo-European/substrate *kar (“stone, hard”); see also Old Armenian քար (kʿar, “stone”), Sanskrit खर (khara, “hard, solid”), Welsh carreg (“stone”).
Related Celtic descendants include Scots craig, Scottish Gaelic creag, Irish creag, Welsh craig, Manx creg.
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Noun[edit]
crag (plural crags)
- A rocky outcrop; a rugged steep rock or cliff.
- 1810, Walter Scott, The Lady of the Lake; a Poem, Edinburgh: Printed [by James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, OCLC 6632529, (please specify the canto number)(please specify the stanza number):
- From crag to crag the signal flew.
- 1842, Alfred Tennyson, Break, Break, Break[1]:
- 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.
- A rough broken fragment of rock.
- (geology) A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Tertiary age.
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Translations[edit]
a rocky outcrop
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Etymology 2[edit]
A variant of craw.
Noun[edit]
crag (plural crags)
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References[edit]
- 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
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