crag and tail, crag and tail

Geol.: A crag, rock, or hill, with a precipitous face on one side and with an accumulation of bowlders, gravel, mud, or similar detrital matter on the other. The Castle Rock at Edinburgh, Scotland, with its steep western face, is a "crag," and 4. The members of a particular trade. "And because he was of the same craft he abode with the eastward slope of the High Street and Canon- them, ."- Acts xviii. 3. gate constitute the "tail." IMG:content-1231.png:[blocks in formation] "But still I perceive an emotion the same As I felt, when a boy, on the crag - covered wild." Byron: Hours of Idlene ; When I Roved a Young High lander . crag-platform, s. A standing place on a crag. "A huge crag - platform , smooth as burnished bra , I chose." Tennyson: The Palace of Art .