crag n.
1. the neck, the head.
Complete Poems (1948) 406: I shrewe thy Scottishe lugges, Thy munpynnys, and thy crag. | ‘How the Douty Duke of Albany’ in Henderson||
The Changeling I ii: The devil put the rope about her crag. | ||
Lady Mother V ii: I will goe to, and there be a wench to be got for love or money, rath[er] then plot murder: ’tis the sweeter sinn; besides, theres no danger of ones cragg. | ||
Dict. Canting Crew. | ||
New Canting Dict. | ||
, , , | Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. | |
Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 15: You would have sworn this mortal twitch / Had given old peleus’ son the itch, / So hard he scratch’d his scurvy crag. | ||
Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | ||
Burlesque Homer (4th edn) II 312: He lent him such a rare hard knock / Upon his crag. | ||
Lex. Balatronicum. | ||
Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |
2. the stomach, the womb.
New Canting Dict. | ||
, , , | Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. 1725]. |