cragfast
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From crag (“rocky outcrop”) + fast.
Adjective
[edit]cragfast (comparative more cragfast, superlative most cragfast)
- (climbing) Stranded on a crag (inaccessible rock).
- a cragfast sheep
- 2010, John Beer, Coleridge's Play of Mind, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 100:
- 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.
- 2017 December 17, Graeme Murrary, “‘Cragfast’ climbers rescued 600ft up Cairngorms peak”, in The Scotsman[1]:
- Mountain rescue crews say the men, who were “soloing” or not using any ropes, called for help after becoming cragfast on Jacob’s Ladder around 4pm on Saturday.