crag
A rocky outcrop; a rugged steep cliff or rockA rocky outcrop; a rugged steep cliff or rock.
» Hit this crag!
Лупайте сю скалу!
Meaning
5 senses(Northern England, countable, uncountable)A rocky outcrop; a rugged steep cliff or rock.
Felsen
скала́skalá, утёсutjós
ске́ляskélja
a steep rugged rock or cliff
(countable, uncountable)A rough, broken fragment of rock.
(countable, uncountable)A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Pliocene to Pleistocene epochs.
(uncountable)A game played with three dice, similar to Yahtzee.
(dialectal, obsolete)The neck or throat.
Examples
3 sentencesHit this crag!
Лупайте сю скалу!
A very different scene was in the mean time passing in the Tower of Wolf's Crag.
I would rather endure the poverty of Wolf's Crag than be pestered with the wealth of Ravenswood Castle.
Translations
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Origin
From 13th century Middle English crag, from Middle Irish crec, a contracted form of MiddleFrom 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.
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Forms
plural: cragsWord family
9 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable