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crag

[ krag ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

crag

[ krag ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

, Scot. and North England.

Crag

/ kræɡ /

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

crag

/ kræɡ /

Origin of crag¹

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

Origin of crag²

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

Origin of crag¹

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

At the present the crag-beds are the most interesting feature to the visitor, especially if he be of a geological turn.

It was with great difficulty however that I clambered down the side of the crag, for the lava just there was porous and bubbly.

I had fallen or rolled by stages the whole way down the crag, and was lying on my side on the Floor of the Hawaiians!

One crag rises to the height of about four hundred feet, with an almost perpendicular surface, sloping down to the lake below.

Pallastown had been like froth on a stone, a castle on a floating, golden crag.

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