Meaning of CRAG
Pronunciation: | | krag
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| Definition: | | [n] a steep rugged rock or cliff |
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| See Also: | | cliff, drop, drop-off | |
Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Crag\ (kr[a^]g), n. [W. craig; akin to Gael. creag, Corn.
karak, Armor. karrek.]
1. A steep, rugged rock; a rough, broken cliff, or point of a
rock, on a ledge.
From crag to crag the signal flew. --Sir W.
Scott.
2. (Geol.) A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with
shells, of the Tertiary age.
\Crag\, n. [A form of craw: cf. D. kraag neck, collar, G.
kragen. See {Craw}.]
1. The neck or throat [Obs.]
And bear the crag so stiff and so state. --Spenser.
2. The neck piece or scrag of mutton. --Johnson.
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| Related Terms: | | aa, abyssal rock, basalt, bedrock, block lava, bluff, brash, breccia, cliff, cog, comb, conglomerate, druid stone, escarpment, face, fang, festooned pahoehoe, gneiss, granite, harrow, igneous rock, jag, lava, limestone, living rock, magma, mantlerock, metamorphic rock, monolith, pahoehoe, palisade, palisades, peak, pecten, pillow lava, porphyry, precipice, projection, pudding stone, rake, ratchet, regolith, rock, ropy lava, rubble, rubblestone, sandstone, sarsen, sawtooth, scar, scarp, schist, scoria, scree, sedimentary rock, shelly pahoehoe, snag, snaggle, spire, sprocket, spur, steep, steeple, stone, talus, tooth, tor, tufa, tuff, wall |
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