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Definition of Cragged
1. Adjective. Having hills and crags. "Hilly terrain"
Similar to: Rough, Unsmooth
Derivative terms: Hill, Hilliness, Mountain
Definition of Cragged
1. a. Full of crags, or steep, broken rocks; abounding with prominences, points, and inequalities; rough; rugged.
Definition of Cragged
1. Adjective. Having crags ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cragged
1. crag [adj] - See also: crag
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cragged
Literary usage of Cragged
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Restituta: Or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English by Egerton Brydges (1815)
"... each cragged cliff, the name of .godhead. took. The night and day, the fleeting
hours, the seasons of the year, And every strange and monstrous thing, ..."
2. The Dawn in Britain by Charles Montagu Doughty (1906)
"Then light, on wounded wights, in cragged path ; Men of these hills, known by
their speech and ensigns. When dukes of the Verona Gauls, their glaives' Sharp ..."
3. Proceedings by Natal (South Africa). Commission to Inquire into the Past and Present State of the Kafirs (1852)
"... live below him in the cragged valley, and others above among the sources of the
... cragged ..."
4. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... but now were cragged stones, and here and there some plots of ground where
they sowed Corne: bread very plentie and cheape in the Citie of Jerusalem, ..."
5. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"No Inhabitants there, and many other ruined places wee travelled over, where had
beene Townes, but now were cragged stones, and here and there some plots of ..."
6. ... The Native Races: Of the Pacific States by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1886)
"... in the midst of a thick forest, an immense circular hole, with cragged, ...
mense circular hole, with cragged, perpendicular sides, trees growing ou of ..."
7. Restituta: Or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English by Egerton Brydges (1815)
"... each cragged cliff, the name of .godhead. took. The night and day, the fleeting
hours, the seasons of the year, And every strange and monstrous thing, ..."
8. The Dawn in Britain by Charles Montagu Doughty (1906)
"Then light, on wounded wights, in cragged path ; Men of these hills, known by
their speech and ensigns. When dukes of the Verona Gauls, their glaives' Sharp ..."
9. Proceedings by Natal (South Africa). Commission to Inquire into the Past and Present State of the Kafirs (1852)
"... live below him in the cragged valley, and others above among the sources of the
... cragged ..."
10. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... but now were cragged stones, and here and there some plots of ground where
they sowed Corne: bread very plentie and cheape in the Citie of Jerusalem, ..."
11. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"No Inhabitants there, and many other ruined places wee travelled over, where had
beene Townes, but now were cragged stones, and here and there some plots of ..."
12. ... The Native Races: Of the Pacific States by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1886)
"... in the midst of a thick forest, an immense circular hole, with cragged, ...
mense circular hole, with cragged, perpendicular sides, trees growing ou of ..."
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