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noun

a steep, rugged rock; rough, broken, projecting part of a rock.

Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English < British Celtic; akin to Welsh craig rock

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crag·like, adjective

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They are taken to an abandoned monastery on a needle-shape crag.

It turns to snow that races bands of storm light from crag to crag.

He's a gentle giant of a creature, who looks down on the rest of the world from a sad and isolated crag.

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noun Scot. and North England.

the neck, throat, or craw.

Origin:
1425–75; late Middle English cragge < Middle Dutch crage neck, throat; cognate with German Kragen collar; compare craw

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crag (kræɡ)

—n
	a steep rugged rock or peak

[C13: of Celtic origin; related to Old Welsh creik rock]

Crag (kræɡ)

—n
	a formation of shelly sandstone in E England, deposited during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs

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Word Origin & History

crag

c.1300, probably from a Celtic source akin to O.Ir. crec "rock," and carrac "cliff," and Manx creg.

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"We cannot escape the impression that the Muse has stooped a little in her flight, when we come to the literature of civilized eras.... The bard has in a great measure lost the dignity and sacredness of his office. Formerly he was called a seer, but now it is thought that one man sees as much as another. He has no longer the bardic rage, and only conceives the deed, which he formerly stood ready to perform. Hosts of warriors earnest for battle could not mistake nor dispense with the ancient bard. His lays were heard in the pauses of the fight. There was no danger of his being overlooked by his contemporaries. But now the hero and the bard are of different professions. When we come to the pleasant English verse, the storms have all cleared away, and it will never thunder and lighten more. The poet has come within doors, and exchanged the forest and crag for the fireside, the hut of the Gael, and Stonehenge, with its circles of stones, for the house of the Englishman. No hero stands at the door prepared to break forth into song or heroic action, but a homely Englishman, who cultivates the art of poetry. We see the comfortable fireside, and hear the crackling fagots, all in verse."

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