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crag.

A rocky outcrop; a rugged steep cliff or rock.

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈkɹæɡ/General-American, Received-Pronunciation[ˈkʰɹ̠ʷæɡ]General-American, Received-Pronunciation/ˈkɹaɡ/British, Midlands, Northern-England, Southern, Standard[ˈkʰɹ̠ʷaɡ]British, Midlands, Northern-England, Southern, Standard

  1. A rocky outcrop; a rugged steep cliff or rock.

    Northern-England · countable · uncountable

  2. A rough, broken fragment of rock.

    countable · uncountable

  3. A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Pliocene to Pleistocene epochs.

    countable · uncountable

  4. A game played with three dice, similar to Yahtzee.

    uncountable
Where this word comes from

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”).

noun/ˈkɹæɡ/General-American, Received-Pronunciation[ˈkʰɹ̠ʷæɡ]General-American, Received-Pronunciation/ˈkɹaɡ/British, Midlands, Northern-England, Southern, Standard[ˈkʰɹ̠ʷaɡ]British, Midlands, Northern-England, Southern, Standard

  1. The neck or throat.

    dialectal · obsolete
Where this word comes from

A variant of craw.

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