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crag

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A steep, rugged rock; a rough, broken cliff, or point of a rock, on a ledge.

A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Tertiary age.

The neck or throat

The neck piece or scrag of mutton.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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He clasps the crag with crooked hands Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls. Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Like so many substantial citizens of America, he had married young and kept on marrying, springing from blonde to blonde like the chamois of the Alps leaping from crag to crag. P. G. Wodehouse

He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure world, he stands. Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The people who really matter in social affairs are neither those who wish to stop short like a mule, or leap from crag to crag like a mountain goat. Walter Lippmann

Ye will break your crag as soon as your fast in his house. Scottish Proverb

But God willed that his cuirass should protect him from the arrows, and to prevent himself from being captured he defended the crag with his bloody sword, cutting off many heads and hands. Source: Internet

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