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Definition of crag in English: cragnoun kraɡkræɡ 1A steep or rugged cliff or rock face. 险崖 Example sentencesExamples - There is a window in the far wall, which looks out on a sheer drop off the rocky mountain crag.
- The first hotel, the Summit House, was built in 1852, just a few feet away from Mt. Washington's highest crag.
- Our guide is of indeterminate age, with teeth as exposed and raw as the crags of the mountains around us.
- This was how she had dreamed it to be, the sharp crags of the Highlands and the Lowland's forever rolling green hills.
- Ed is a local and, as one of the country's most famous climbers, a regular on this crag.
- Visually, the city keeps you enthralled, with its setting atop a series of extinct volcanoes and rocky crags.
- He floats for two days and when he nears the land all he can see are violent crags and cliffs.
- Down in the valley, Gawain saw nothing but hills and rocky crags.
- By now they would be on the high crags or over the Sierra crest.
- One side is steep forestry and crags, the other is pretty pasture interspersed with little old woods.
- I first began climbing harder routes in the mountains and on smaller crags when I came up to Oxford.
- The rolling, gentle hills of the borderland of Northern Ireland transform on the turn of a bend into rugged, exposed crags.
- The mountains are so close, you can see every crag and cranny.
- One could lie in wait on some high crag, and at hitherto unheard-of ranges hit a horseman far below.
- I stood on a high rocky crag that marked the beginning of it, high above the world.
- There is a rock solid truth to this crag game, going up involves coming down.
- There was a mottled rocky slope with spiky crags reaching into cloud.
- Nest sites include crags or ledges on cliffs, scrapes on the ground, or hollows of trees.
- This amazing crag sits right on the oceans edge and features some crazy web-like pockets.
- Crag after crag, we come across perfect condor nesting sites.
- It stood upon a frozen, wind-swept crag with the snow piled about it in treacherous, drifting masses.
Synonyms cliff, bluff, ridge, precipice, rock face, overhang height, peak, tor, pinnacle promontory, headland bank, slope, escarpment, scarp rare eminence 2Geology
mass noun A shelly sandstone occurring in eastern England. 〔地质〕（存在于英格兰东部的）砂质泥灰岩
OriginMiddle English: of Celtic origin. sense 2, dating from the mid 18th century, may have been a different word originally. Rhymesbag, blag, brag, Bragg, dag, drag, flag, gag, hag, jag, lag, mag, nag, quag, rag, sag, scrag, slag, snag, sprag, stag, swag, tag, wag, zag Definition of crag in US English: cragnounkræɡkraɡ A steep or rugged cliff or rock face. 险崖 Example sentencesExamples - Ed is a local and, as one of the country's most famous climbers, a regular on this crag.
- There was a mottled rocky slope with spiky crags reaching into cloud.
- This amazing crag sits right on the oceans edge and features some crazy web-like pockets.
- I stood on a high rocky crag that marked the beginning of it, high above the world.
- Our guide is of indeterminate age, with teeth as exposed and raw as the crags of the mountains around us.
- Down in the valley, Gawain saw nothing but hills and rocky crags.
- By now they would be on the high crags or over the Sierra crest.
- Nest sites include crags or ledges on cliffs, scrapes on the ground, or hollows of trees.
- I first began climbing harder routes in the mountains and on smaller crags when I came up to Oxford.
- Crag after crag, we come across perfect condor nesting sites.
- It stood upon a frozen, wind-swept crag with the snow piled about it in treacherous, drifting masses.
- This was how she had dreamed it to be, the sharp crags of the Highlands and the Lowland's forever rolling green hills.
- The first hotel, the Summit House, was built in 1852, just a few feet away from Mt. Washington's highest crag.
- The mountains are so close, you can see every crag and cranny.
- One could lie in wait on some high crag, and at hitherto unheard-of ranges hit a horseman far below.
- There is a rock solid truth to this crag game, going up involves coming down.
- The rolling, gentle hills of the borderland of Northern Ireland transform on the turn of a bend into rugged, exposed crags.
- Visually, the city keeps you enthralled, with its setting atop a series of extinct volcanoes and rocky crags.
- There is a window in the far wall, which looks out on a sheer drop off the rocky mountain crag.
- He floats for two days and when he nears the land all he can see are violent crags and cliffs.
- One side is steep forestry and crags, the other is pretty pasture interspersed with little old woods.
Synonyms cliff, bluff, ridge, precipice, rock face, overhang
OriginMiddle English: of Celtic origin. crag (sense 2 of the noun), dating from the mid 18th century, may have been a different word originally. |