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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
crag
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
mountain
▪ The blatant placing of a bolt in a Lakeland mountain crag produced considerable reaction throughout the rock climbing fraternity.
▪ The Cyclopes, too, were gigantic, towering up like mighty mountain crags and devastating in their power.
▪ Access problems and the odd bolt on Lakeland mountain crags have had activists frothing at the mouth.
▪ At last he came, hideous and huge, tall as a great mountain crag.
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▪ Massive slate crags rise above the river bank.
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▪ Bleak heights are carpeted in radiant colors; every crack and crevice of a frowning crag blossoms.
▪ Local tradition calls salty crags by the Dead Sea after her still.
▪ Seasons: The crag faces west, is sited just above the sea and climbing is generally possible all year round.
▪ The alabaster face of Rogal Dorn branded his retinas: a crag of a face, with lush tough lips.
▪ The blatant placing of a bolt in a Lakeland mountain crag produced considerable reaction throughout the rock climbing fraternity.
▪ The Cyclopes, too, were gigantic, towering up like mighty mountain crags and devastating in their power.
▪ With wet clothes clinging to her back, she looked skeletal, her shoulder blades poking up like sharp crags.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crag

Crag \Crag\ (kr[a^]g), n. [W. craig; akin to Gael. creag, Corn. karak, Armor. karrek.]

  1. A steep, rugged rock; a rough, broken cliff, or point of a rock, on a ledge.

    From crag to crag the signal flew.
    --Sir W. Scott.

  2. (Geol.) A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Tertiary age.

Crag

Crag \Crag\, n. [A form of craw: cf. D. kraag neck, collar, G. kragen. See Craw.]

  1. The neck or throat [Obs.]

    And bear the crag so stiff and so state.
    --Spenser.

  2. The neck piece or scrag of mutton.
    --Johnson.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
crag

early 14c.; as a place-name element attested from c.1200, probably from a Celtic source akin to Old Irish crec "rock," and carrac "cliff," Welsh craig "rock, stone," Manx creg, Breton krag.

Wiktionary
crag

n. 1 A rocky outcrop. 2 (context geology English) A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Tertiary age.

WordNet
crag

n. a steep rugged rock or cliff

Wikipedia
Crag

Crag may refer to:

  • A steep rugged mass of rock projecting upward or outward, especially a cliff or vertical rock exposure in the north of England or in Scotland (Scottish Gaelic and Irish:creag, Welsh:craig).
  • In rock climbing, crag refers to a cliff or group of cliffs, in any location, which is or may be suitable for climbing
  • Crag and tail, a geological formation caused by the passage of a glacier over an area of hard rock
  • Craggy Island, a fictional Island on Father Ted
  • Marine deposits of Pleistocene age found in East Anglia:
    • Red Crag
    • Wroxham Crag
    • Corralline Crag
    • Norwich Crag
  • Club de Radioaficionados de Guatemala, an amateur radio organization in Guatemala
  • The Crag, the final event in the Nickelodeon Guts action sports program
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Usage examples of "crag".

In tiers and scarps, crags and cliffs, thinly brush-grown or naked rock, the continental shelf dropped down three kilometers to the Antonine Seabed.

As they had traveled north, the towering trees of Bedlington Forest had given way to the rolling hills and sharp crags of Northumberland.

Lower Pleistocene Crags were described as being artifacts, such as the flints, some flaked bifacially, in the Red Crag near Ipswich, and the so-called rostro-carinates from the base of the Norwich Crag near Norwich.

Lower Pleistocene Crags were described as being artifacts, such as the flints, some flaked bifacially, in the Red Crag near Ipswich, and the so-called rostrocarinates from the base of the Norwich Crag near Norwich.

The hills were carpeted with bluebonnets and Indian paintbrushes, while the more rocky crags were cloaked in dark green juniper.

Audley studied the rock-strewn slopes of the crags above them on each side of the Boghole Gap.

The crooks fairly expected the rest of the crag to come thundering down upon them like a tidal wave of rock.

Ahead of her, presently, she saw an outcropping of dark, flintlike rock that sloped upward into what looked like a rugged crag rising among the trees.

They concluded that the flints from the base of the Red Crag near Ipswich were in undisturbed strata, at least Pliocene in age.

Comrade Gooch reminded me of the untamed chamois of the Alps, leaping from crag to crag.

She had the power, and perhaps the right, to force her will on the hawks she trained, on the horses she rode, even, to save her life, on the wild banshee of the crags.

We had to reach an almost unknown Lamaistic monastery said to be perched on a crag some fifty miles away and only to be reached by rarely traveled trails.

The lurs dunted and the host raised another shout that rang between crags and cliffs, up toward the stars.

It swept over the mountains like An ocean,--and I heard it strike The woods and crags of Grasmere vale.

Based on the level waters, to the sky Lifted their dreadful crags, and like a shore Of wintry mountains, inaccessibly Hemmed in with rifts and precipices gray, And hanging crags, many a cove and bay.