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crag🔊

(Northern England) A rocky outcrop; a rugged steep cliff or rock.

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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.
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.
A traveller who has all but gained the last height of the great mist-covered mountain looks back over the painful crags he has mastered to where a light is shining on the first easy slope. That light is ever visible, for it is Youth.

A rough, broken fragment of rock.

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

A game played with three dice, similar to Yahtzee.

(obsolete) The neck or throat.

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