cragfast
English
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Adjective
cragfast (comparative more cragfast, superlative most cragfast)
- (climbing) Stranded on a crag (inaccessible rock).
- 2010, John Beer, Coleridge's Play of Mind, Oxford University Press (→ISBN), page 100
- 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.
- a cragfast sheep
- 2010, John Beer, Coleridge's Play of Mind, Oxford University Press (→ISBN), page 100
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