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crags

crags is the plural of crag.

Meaning of crag

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...
  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.

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Questions about crags

What is crags the plural of?
Crags is the plural of crag.

Words near crags in the dictionary

  1. Cragle
  2. Cragles
  3. craglike
  4. Crago
  5. Cragos
  6. crags
  7. cragside
  8. cragsman
  9. cragsmanship
  10. cragsmen
  11. cragswoman

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