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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a steep rugged rock or cliff

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, of Celtic origin; akin to Welsh craig rock Date: 14th century 1. a steep rugged rock or cliff 2. archaic a sharp detached fragment of rock • cragged adjective II. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Middle Dutch cr?ghe; akin to Old English cræga throat — more at craw Date: 14th century chiefly Scottish neck, throat

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. n. Brit. a steep or rugged rock. Etymology: ME, of Celt. orig. 2. n. Geol. rock consisting of a shelly sand. Etymology: 18th c.: perh. f. CRAG(1)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(crags) A crag is a steep rocky cliff or part of a mountain. N-COUNT

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

krag (shen (1Sa 7:12; 14:4; Job 39:28 the King James Version and the English Revised Version)): In a mountainous country composed of sedimentary rocks, like the cretaceous rocks of Palestine, cliffs are formed on a slope where hard strata are underlaid by softer strata. The soft strata wear away more rapidly, undermining the hard strata above them, which for a time project, but finally break off by vertical joint planes, the fragments rolling down to form the talus slope at the foot of the cliff. As the breaking off of the undermined hard strata proceeds irregularly, there are left projecting crags, sometimes at the top of the cliff, and sometimes lower down. Two such crags (shen ha-cela`, "sharp rock," the Revised Version (British and American) "rocky crag"), which were given particular names, Bozez and Seneh, marked the scene of the exploit of Jonathan described in 1Sa 14. Conder failed to identify the crags, and it has been proposed to alter the text rather extensively to make it read: "wall of rock" instead of "crag" (Encyclopedia Biblica, under the word "Michmash"). Such rocks form safe resting-places for birds of prey, as it is said of the eagle in Job 39:28 English Revised Version: "She dwelleth on the rock and hath her lodging there, Upon the crag of the rock, and the stronghold." Alfred Ely Day

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Rough, steep rock. 2. Neck, throat.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

The neck.

Moby Thesaurus

aa, abyssal rock, basalt, bedrock, block lava, bluff, brash, breccia, cliff, cog, comb, conglomerate, druid stone, escarpment, face, fang, festooned pahoehoe, gneiss, granite, harrow, igneous rock, jag, lava, limestone, living rock, magma, mantlerock, metamorphic rock, monolith, pahoehoe, palisade, palisades, peak, pecten, pillow lava, porphyry, precipice, projection, pudding stone, rake, ratchet, regolith, rock, ropy lava, rubble, rubblestone, sandstone, sarsen, sawtooth, scar, scarp, schist, scoria, scree, sedimentary rock, shelly pahoehoe, snag, snaggle, spire, sprocket, spur, steep, steeple, stone, talus, tooth, tor, tufa, tuff, wall