• Cragsman

    Pronunciation

    • UK IPA: /ˈkɹaÉ¡zmÉ™n/

    Origin

    From crags + man.

    Full definition of cragsman

    Noun

    cragsman

    (plural cragsmen)
    1. A climber of crags or other vertical rocks.
      • 1851, George Borrow, Lavengro:Meanwhile I had become a daring cragsman, a character to which an English lad has seldom opportunities of aspiring; for in England there are neither crags nor mountains.
      • 1910, John Buchan, Prester John:A boyhood spent on the cliffs at Kirkcaple had made me a bold cragsman, and the porphyry of the Rooirand clearly gave excellent holds.
      • 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 424:A skilled cragsman himself, he told his officers that he believed that a determined party of Gurkhas and other experienced climbers could reach the enemy by this route.
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