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crag
/kɹæɡ/
noun 5name 1
Collocations
3ADJ.
barren
VERB + CRAG
hit
PREP.
about, from, on, than, with
Definitions
noun
1
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.
Break, break, break, / At the foot of thy crags, O Sea! / But the tender grace of a day that is dead / Will never come back to me.
2
A rough, broken fragment of rock.
3
A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Pliocene to Pleistocene epochs.
4
A game played with three dice, similar to Yahtzee.
noun
1
The neck or throat.
name
1
A dice game similar to Yahtzee.
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"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.
Wiktionary02
Break, break, break, / At the foot of thy crags, O Sea! / But the tender grace of a day that is dead / Will never come back to me.
Wiktionary03
Hit this crag!
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And then he realized that his wanderings had come to an end, and that there, on that barren crag, he was about to die.
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Ride home to Wolf's Crag with me. There are places in the old tower where you might lie hid, were a thousand men to seek you.
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A very different scene was in the mean time passing in the Tower of Wolf's Crag.
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