CRAG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crag mean? 

• CRAG (noun)
  The noun CRAG has 1 sense:

1. a steep rugged rock or cliff

  Familiarity information: CRAG used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRAG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A steep rugged rock or cliff

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("crag" is a kind of...):

cliff; drop; drop-off (a steep high face of rock)

 Context examples 

From that height I had a better idea of the plateau upon the top of the crags.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The sledge was still visible, nor did I again lose sight of it except at the moments when for a short time some ice-rock concealed it with its intervening crags.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Thrice it swelled forth and thrice it sank away, echoing and reverberating amidst the crags.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

High banks of moor were about me; the crag protected my head: the sky was over that.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Right and left of us they towered, with the afternoon sun falling full upon them and bringing out all the glorious colours of this beautiful range, deep blue and purple in the shadows of the peaks, green and brown where grass and rock mingled, and an endless perspective of jagged rock and pointed crags, till these were themselves lost in the distance, where the snowy peaks rose grandly.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Among the fallen rocks the breakers spouted and bellowed; loud reverberations, heavy sprays flying and falling, succeeded one another from second to second; and I saw myself, if I ventured nearer, dashed to death upon the rough shore or spending my strength in vain to scale the beetling crags.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The crags above us were not merely perpendicular, but curved outwards at the top, so that ascent was out of the question.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I saw a lizard run over the crag; I saw a bee busy among the sweet bilberries.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

With the early dawn they found themselves in a black ravine, with others sloping away from it on either side, and the bare brown crags rising in long bleak terraces all round them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I could distinctly see the isolated, tree-crowned pinnacle of rock which was detached from the crag.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)