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crag

/ˈkɹæɡ/

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British/ˈkɹaɡ/

crag noun: a rocky outcrop; a rugged steep cliff or rock.

crag: a rocky outcrop; a rugged steep cliff or rock
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Noun (1)

crag (countable and uncountable, plural crags)

  1. (Northern England) A rocky outcrop; a rugged steep cliff or rock.
    • "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.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...
    • 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.1835, Alfred Tennyson, “‘Break, Break, Break’”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, stanza 3, page 229
  2. A rough, broken fragment of rock.
  3. A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Pliocene to Pleistocene epochs.
  4. (uncountable) A game played with three dice, similar to Yahtzee.

Noun (2)

crag (plural crags)

  1. (dialectal, obsolete) The neck or throat.

Proper noun capitalized: Crag

Crag

  1. A dice game similar to Yahtzee.

crag meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Arabic

crag in Tamil

crag, ledge
பாறை pāṟai

crag in Malayalam

കുത്തനെ നിൽക്കുന്ന പാറ, കിഴുക്കാംതൂക്കായ പാറ

crag in Kannada

ಸರಿಗಲ್ಲು, ಕಡಿದಾದ ಒರಟು ಬಂಡೆ, ಕಗ್ಗಲ್ಲು, ಗೋರ್ಕಲ್ಲು

crag in Arabic

rocky outcrop
جُرْفٌ jurfun

Examples of crag in a sentence

  • Every one's up on a crag where he'd got stuck and had to ab off.
  • Had a pterodactyl swooped down from those old-time crags, it would hardly have been out of place.
  • We followed a trail into the Flatirons, soaring triangular crags that were named for their resemblance to Victorian-era clothing irons.

All 15 example sentences with crag

Forms of crag

pluralcrags
alternative formcraig

Plural of crag: crags

Origin of crag

From 13th century Middle English crag, from Middle Irish crec, a contracted form of Middle 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”).

A variant of craw.

Words formed from crag

Phrases with crag

Words that rhyme with crag

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Questions about crag

What does crag mean?
Crag means a rocky outcrop; a rugged steep cliff or rock.
What is crag in Tamil?
Crag in Tamil is பாறை (pāṟai). See Crag meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is crag?
Crag can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce crag?
Crag is pronounced /ˈkɹæɡ/ (UK).
What is the plural of crag?
The plural of crag is crags.

Words near crag in the dictionary

  1. craftworker
  2. craftworkers
  3. craftworking
  4. craftworks
  5. crafty
  6. crag
  7. Crag Foot
  8. crag martin
  9. crag martins
  10. crag-fast
  11. cragbound

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crag (page history and authors); Crag (page history and authors); பாறை (Tamil) (page history and authors); crag (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); crag (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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