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▪ I. cragged, a.1|ˈkrægɪd| [f. crag n.1 + -ed2.] Formed into, beset with, or abounding in crags.
1572J. Jones Bathes of Bath ii. 10 b, The waters descending out of the cragged rockes. 1647Sprigge Anglia Rediv. iv. iv. (1854) 237 Through a country so cragged. 1699L. Wafer Voy. (1729) 384 Cragged ways and dangerous precipices. 1837W. Irving Capt. Bonneville II. 115 The mountains were lofty, with snowy peaks and cragged sides. b. transf. and fig. Rugged, rough.
a1400Cov. Myst. xli. (Shaks. Soc.) 384 As knave wyth this craggyd knad hym kylle I. 1579Twyne Phisicke agst. Fort. i. cxx. 150 b, A cragged headlong downefall. 1605Camden Rem., Our English names running rough with cragged consonants. 1649Roberts Clavis Bibl. 404 He is not rough and cragged, but smooth and polished. 1697R. Pierce Bath Mem. ii. viii. 375 Having..a sharp and cragged Stone in the Right Kidney. ▪ II. ˈcragged, a.2 Also Sc. craiged. [f. crag n.2 + -ed2.] Chiefly in parasynthetic combs.: Having a{ddd}neck, -necked; as in narrow-craiged.
1607Markham Caval. iii. 14 His necke straight, firme..and not (as my Countreymen say) withie-cragg'd, which is loose and plyant. 1722Ramsay Fables xvii, A narrow craiged Pig. |