crag

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A rocky outcrop; a rugged steep cliff or rock.

   "Have, then, thy wish!"—he whistled shrill, / And he was answered from the hill; / Wild as the scream of the curlieu, / From crag to crag the signal flew.

2. 2
   noun

   a steep rugged rock or cliff

3. 3
   noun

   A rough, broken fragment of rock.

4. 4
   noun

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

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”).

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