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cragfast en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English crag Proto-Germanic *fastuz Proto-West Germanic *fast Old English fæst Middle English fast English fast English cragfast From crag (“rocky outcrop”) + fast.

Meanings

1. Stranded on a crag (inaccessible rock).
   • Mountain rescue crews say the men, who were “soloing” or not using any ropes, called for help after becoming cragfast on Jacob’s Ladder around 4pm on Saturday. 2017 December 17, Graeme Murrary, “‘Cragfast’ climbers rescued 600ft up Cairngorms peak”, in The Scotsman:
   • Eventually, having seen the dangers of the ledge still more clearly, and the body of a sheep which had become cragfast at the same spot, he spotted a solution to his difficulty. As he looked down he could see stones on the ledge far beneath him which must have been piled there by a shepherd trying vainly to reach the cragfast sheep whose body he had just passed. 2010, John Beer, Coleridge's Play of Mind, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 100:
   • a cragfast sheep

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