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cragswoman

cragswoman noun: a female cragsman.

Noun

cragswoman (plural cragswomen)

  1. A female cragsman.
    • Nothing at all resembling a path appeared, but Lady Darcy had travelled in search of the picturesque, and was no contemptible “cragswoman.”1832, [Frances Milton] Trollope, The Refugee in America: A Novel, volume I, London: Whittaker, Treacher, and Co., […], chapter XVII, page 27
    • “You are no cragswoman, Lady,” said Blanch, stopping abruptly beneath a part of the cliff which seemed to the stranger’s unpractised ken more precipitous than at any other part, “else would I advise our climbing this somewhat steep ascent—there was a path here once, and could I find it ’twould save...1836 April, Georgina Smith, “The Pirate’s Cave”, in The New Monthly Belle Assemblée, page 194, column 1

Forms of cragswoman

pluralcragswomen

Origin of cragswoman

From crag + -s- + -woman.

Questions about cragswoman

What does cragswoman mean?
Cragswoman means a female cragsman.
What part of speech is cragswoman?
Cragswoman is a noun.
What is the plural of cragswoman?
The plural of cragswoman is cragswomen.

Words near cragswoman in the dictionary

  1. crags
  2. cragside
  3. cragsman
  4. cragsmanship
  5. cragsmen
  6. cragswoman
  7. cragswomen
  8. Cragun
  9. Craguns
  10. Crai
  11. Craibe

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