crag2 (krag)

[Sc. also craig, neck, throat (> Ir. craig, throat, gullet); appar. Icel. kragi = Sw. krage = Dan. krave, collar, shirt-front, bosom), = MHG. krage, G. kragen, collar, orig. neck or throat: see crawl, which is ult. identical with crag2 (cf. draw and drag ), and cf. carcanet. ] 11. The neck; the throat; the scrag. They looken bigge as Bulls that bene bate, And bearen the cragge so stiffe and so state, As cocke on his dunghill crowing cranek. Spenser, Shep. Cal., September. The devil put the rope about her crag . Middle ton and Rowley , Changeling, i. 2. 2. The craw. [Prov. Eng.] cragged (krag'ed), a . Full of crags, or broken rocks; rough; rugged; abounding with sharp prominences and inequalities. These wayes are too rough, cragged and thornie for a daintie traueller. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 572. Must oft into its cragged rents descend, The higher but to mount. IMG:content-1539.png:[blocks in formation] From the craggy ledge the poppy hangs in sleep. Tennyson, Lotos-Eaters (Choric Song). cragsman (kragz'man), n.; pl. cragsmen (-men). [ A bold cragsman , scaling the steepest cliffs. Harper's Mag., LXIV. 889.