[f. CRAG sb.1 + -ED2.] Formed into, beset with, or abounding in crags.
1572. J. Jones, Bathes of Bath, II. 10 b. The waters descending out of the cragged rockes.
1647. Sprigge, Anglia Rediv., IV. iv. (1854), 237. Through a country so cragged.
1699. L. Wafer, Voy. (1729), 384. Cragged ways and dangerous precipices.
1837. W. Irving, Capt. Bonneville, II. 115. The mountains were lofty, with snowy peaks and cragged sides.
b. transf. and fig. Rugged, rough.
a. 1400. Cov. Myst., xli. (Shaks. Soc.), 384. As knave wyth this craggyd knad hym kylle I.
1579. Twyne, Phisicke agst. Fort., I. cxx. 150 b. A cragged headlong downefall.
1605. Camden, Rem. Our English names running rough with cragged consonants.
1649. Roberts, Clavis Bibl., 404. He is not rough and cragged, but smooth and polished.
1697. R. Peirce, Bath Mem., II. viii. 375. Having a sharp and cragged Stone in the Right Kidney.