Crag

• POS: Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

Crag, n. [W. craig; akin to Gael. creag, Corn. karak, Armor. karrek.].

•  A steep, rugged rock; a rough, broken cliff, or point of a rock, on a ledge.  [1913 Webster]

  "From crag to crag the signal flew."  [1913 Webster]
•  A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Tertiary age.  [1913 Webster]

Crag, n. [A form of craw: cf. D. kraag neck, collar, G. kragen. See Craw.].

•  The neck or throat  [1913 Webster]

  "And bear the crag so stiff and so state."  [1913 Webster]
•  The neck piece or scrag of mutton.  Johnson.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Crag, n. Brit. a steep or rugged rock.

Crag, n. Geol. rock consisting of a shelly sand.

Etymology

18th c.: perh. f. CRAG(1)

THESAURUS

Crag

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

ROGET THESAURUS

Crag

Sharpness

N sharpness, acuity, acumination, spinosity, point, spike, spine, spicule, spiculum, needle, hypodermic needle, tack, nail, pin, prick, prickle, spur, rowel, barb, spit, cusp, horn, antler, snag, tag thorn, bristle, Adam's needle, bear grass, tine, yucca, nib, tooth, tusk, spoke, cog, ratchet, crag, crest, arete, cone peak, sugar loaf, pike, aiguille, spire, pyramid, steeple, beard, chevaux de frise, porcupine, hedgehog, brier, bramble, thistle, comb, awn, beggar's lice, bur, burr, catchweed, cleavers, clivers, goose, grass, hairif, hariff, flax comb, hackle, hatchel, heckle, wedge, knife edge, cutting edge, blade, edge tool, cutlery, knife, penknife, whittle, razor, razor blade, safety razor, straight razor, electric razor, scalpel, bistoury, lancet, plowshare, coulter, colter, hatchet, ax, pickax, mattock, pick, adze, gill, billhook, cleaver, cutter, scythe, sickle, scissors, shears, pruning shears, cutters, wire cutters, nail clipper, paper cutter, sword, bodkin, belduque, bowie knife, paring knife, bushwhacker, drawing knife, drawing shave, microtome, chisel, screwdriver blade, flint blade, guillotine, sharpener, hone, strop, grindstone, whetstone, novaculite, steel, emery, sharp, keen, acute, acicular, aciform, aculeated, acuminated, pointed, tapering, conical, pyramidal, mucronate, mucronated, spindle shaped, needle shaped, spiked, spiky, ensiform, peaked, salient, cusped, cuspidate, cuspidated, cornute, cornuted, cornicultate, prickly, spiny, spinous, spicular, thorny, bristling, muricated, pectinated, studded, thistly, briary, craggy, snaggy, digitated, two-edged, fusiform, dentiform, denticulated, toothed, odontoid, starlike, stellated, stelliform, sagittate, sagittiform, arrowheaded, arrowy, barbed, spurred, acinaciform, apiculate, apiculated, aristate, awned, awny, bearded, calamiform, cone-shaped, coniform, crestate, echinate, gladiate, lanceolate, lanciform, awl, awl-shaped, lance-shaped, awl- shaped, scimitar-shaped, sword-shaped, setarious, spinuliferous, subulate, tetrahedral, xiphoid, cutting, sharp edged, knife edged, sharp as a razor, keen as a razor, sharp as a needle, sharp as a tack, sharpened, set.

Hardness

N hardness, rigidity, renitence, renitency, inflexibility, temper, callosity, durity, induration, petrifaction, lapidification, lapidescence, vitrification, ossification, crystallization, stone, pebble, flint, marble, rock, fossil, crag, crystal, quartz, granite, adamant, bone, cartilage, hardware, heart of oak, block, board, deal board, iron, steel, cast iron, decarbonized iron, wrought iron, nail, brick, concrete, cement, hard, rigid, stubborn, stiff, firm, starch, starched, stark, unbending, unlimber, unyielding, inflexible, tense, indurate, indurated, gritty, proof, adamant, adamantine, adamantean, concrete, stony, granitic, calculous, lithic, vitreous, horny, corneous, bony, osseous, ossific, cartilaginous, hard as a rock, stiff as buckram, stiff as a poker, stiff as starch, stiff as as board.

Land

N land, earth, ground, dry land, terra firma, continent, mainland, peninsula, chersonese, delta, tongue of land, neck of land, isthmus, oasis, promontory, highland, coast, shore, scar, strand, beach, playa, bank, lea, seaboard, seaside, seabank, seacoast, seabeach, ironbound coast, loom of the land, derelict, innings, alluvium, alluvion, ancon, riverbank, river bank, levee, soil, glebe, clay, loam, marl, cledge, chalk, gravel, mold, subsoil, clod, clot, rock, crag, acres, real estate, landsman, earthy, continental, midland, coastal, littoral, riparian, alluvial, terrene, landed, predial, territorial, geophilous, ripicolous, ashore, on shore, on land.