crag

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A rocky outcrop; a rugged steep cliff or rock. Northern-England,countable,uncountable
    — "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.
  2. The neck or throat. dialectal,obsolete
  3. A rough, broken fragment of rock. countable,uncountable
  4. A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Pliocene to Pleistocene epochs. countable,uncountable
  5. A game played with three dice, similar to Yahtzee. uncountable

词形变化

crags plural craig alternative crags plural

词汇关系

衍生词
cragbound cragfast Crag Foot cragged cragger craggy craglike crag martin cragsman cragswoman

词源

词源 1
From 13th century Middle English crag, from Middle Irish crec, a contracted form of Middle Irish carrac (compare Irish creig, Scottish Gaelic creag), possibly ultimately from the late Proto-Indo-European/substrate *kar (“stone, hard”); see also Old Armenian քար (kʻar, “stone”), Sanskrit खर (khara, “hard, solid”), Welsh carreg (“stone”).
词源 2
A variant of craw.
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