[f. CRAG sb.1 + -ED2.] Formed into, beset with, or abounding in crags.

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1572.  J. Jones, Bathes of Bath, II. 10 b. The waters descending out of the cragged rockes.

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1647.  Sprigge, Anglia Rediv., IV. iv. (1854), 237. Through a country so cragged.

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1699.  L. Wafer, Voy. (1729), 384. Cragged ways and dangerous precipices.

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1837.  W. Irving, Capt. Bonneville, II. 115. The mountains were lofty, with snowy peaks and cragged sides.

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  b.  transf. and fig. Rugged, rough.

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a. 1400.  Cov. Myst., xli. (Shaks. Soc.), 384. As knave wyth this craggyd knad hym kylle I.

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1579.  Twyne, Phisicke agst. Fort., I. cxx. 150 b. A cragged headlong downefall.

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1605.  Camden, Rem. Our English names running rough with cragged consonants.

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1649.  Roberts, Clavis Bibl., 404. He is not rough and cragged, but smooth and polished.

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1697.  R. Peirce, Bath Mem., II. viii. 375. Having … a sharp and cragged Stone in the Right Kidney.

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