Crag
[kræg]
Definition
(n.) A steep, rugged rock; a rough, broken cliff, or point of a rock, on a ledge.
(n.) A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Tertiary age.
(n.) The neck or throat
(n.) The neck piece or scrag of mutton.
Typed by Edwina
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Bough, steep rock.
Edited by Jeffrey
Definition
n. a rough steep rock or point: (geol.) a bed of gravel mixed with shells.—adjs. Crag′ged Crag′gy full of crags or broken rocks: rough: rugged.—ns. Crag′gedness Crag′giness; Crags′man one skilled in climbing rocks.
n. the neck.—Scotch forms Craig Craig′ie.
Typed by Lisa
Examples
- The rider from the chateau, and the horse in a foam, clattered away through the village, and galloped up the stony steep, to the prison on the crag. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- A crag overspread by a tree was her station. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- High banks of moor were about me; the crag protected my head: the sky was over that. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I saw a lizard run over the crag; I saw a bee busy among the sweet bilberries. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The man looked at him, looked at the village in the hollow, at the mill, and at the prison on the crag. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Spread the sail, and strain with oar, hurrying by dark impending crags, adown steep rapids, even to the sea of desolation I have reached. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- All along, and among, and above these crags dash and flash, sweep and leap, swells, wreaths, drifts of snowy spray. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- We had descended the Alps, and left far behind their vast forests and mighty crags. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
Edited by Della