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. | |
![]() | A new fairing for the merrily disposed 40: [H]e was reserved for a worse Fate [and] must undoubtedly have broke his Crag. | |
![]() | Dict. Canting Crew. | |
![]() | New Canting Dict. | |
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![]() | 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]. |