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crannog Prehist. Archæol.|ˈkrænəg|
[a. Irish crannog, Gael. crannag structure of timber, pulpit, round top of a mast, cross-trees of a ship, etc., deriv. of crann tree, beam, mast, shaft, etc.
Erroneously printed crannoge by Dr. Daniel Wilson, and after him by many archæologists, with pl. crannoges, as if the g were soft.]
An ancient lake-dwelling in Scotland or Ireland.
1851D. Wilson Preh. Ann. (1863) I. ii. ii. 351 One of the ancient Lake villages or Crannoges. Ibid. II. iii. iii. 99. 1886 Athenæum 24 Apr. 556/2 The Irish crannogs continued to be resorted to, in troublous times, even down to the seventeenth century. 1892Times 24 Oct. 3 The well-known palisades of the crannogs in Scotland and Ireland.
attrib.1851D. Wilson Preh. Ann. II. iii. iii. 100 The ancient forests of the crannoge era. 1887Westm. Rev. June 345 Engineering and mechanical skill on the part of these early crannoge builders.
Hence ˈcrannoger, a dweller in a crannog.
1884Times (Weekly Ed.) 19 Sept. 12 Crannogers felt strong in their fastnesses, and were unwilling to quit them for the convenience of the mainland. |