crag
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A crag (sense 1).
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /kɹæɡ/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -æɡ
Etymology 1
From 13th century Middle English crag, from Middle Irish crec, a contracted form of Old Irish carrac (compare Irish creig, Scottish Gaelic creag), possibly ultimately from the late Proto-Indo-European/substrate *kar (“stone, hard”); see also Old Armenian քար (kʻar, “stone”), Sanskrit खर (khara, “hard, solid”), Welsh carreg (“stone”).
Noun
crag (plural crags)
- (Northern England) A rocky outcrop; a rugged steep cliff or rock.
- 1810, Walter Scott, “Canto V. The Combat.”, in The Lady of the Lake; , Edinburgh: [James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, →OCLC, stanza IX, page 202:
- "Have, then, thy wish!"—he whistled shrill, / And he was answered from the hill; / Wild as the scream of the curlieu, / From crag to crag the signal flew.
- 1835, Alfred Tennyson, “‘Break, Break, Break’”, in Poems. , volume II, London: Edward Moxon, , published 1842, →OCLC, stanza 3, page 229:
- Break, break, break, / At the foot of thy crags, O Sea! / But the tender grace of a day that is dead / Will never come back to me.
- A rough, broken fragment of rock.
- (geology) A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Pliocene to Pleistocene epochs.
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Derived terms
Translations
rocky outcrop
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Etymology 2
A variant of craw.
Noun
crag (plural crags)
References
- Dravidian Origins and the West: Newly Discovered Ties with the Ancient Culture and Languages, Including Basque, of the Pre-Indo-European Mediterranean World, p. 325
- Webster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition
- Scigliano, Eric (2007): Michelangelo's Mountain: The Quest For Perfection in the Marble Quarries of Carrara, p. 84
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Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle Irish crec, from Old Irish carrac, possibly from the late Proto-Indo-European/substrate *kar (“stone, hard”); see also Old Armenian քար (kʻar, “stone”), Sanskrit खर (khara, “hard, solid”), Welsh carreg (“stone”).
Pronunciation
Noun
crag (plural cragges)
Descendants
References
- “crag, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.