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Webster 1913 Edition


Crag

Crag

(krăg)
,
Noun.
[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

,
Noun.
[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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Crag

CRAG

,
Noun.
[Gr., to break, L., breaking. See Crack.] A steep rugged rock; a rough broken rock, or point of a rock.

CRAG

,
Noun.
[Gr. Roughness, or break. We now call it rack.] The neck, formerly applied to the neck of a human being, as in Spenser. We now apply it to the neck or neck-piece of mutton, and call it a rack of mutton.

Definition 2024


crág

crág

See also: crag and crág-

Irish

Noun

crág f (genitive singular cráige, nominative plural crága)

  1. large hand; claw, paw
  2. handful
  3. (mechanical engineering) clutch
  4. (biology) chela
  5. (rugby) maul

Declension

Derived terms

Verb

crág (present analytic crágann, future analytic crágfaidh, verbal noun crágadh, past participle crágtha)

  1. (chemistry) to chelate

Conjugation

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
crág chrág gcrág
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.