crag

Etymology 1

From 13th century Middle English crag, from Middle Irish crec, a contracted form of Old Irish carrac (compare Irish creig, Scottish Gaelic creag), possibly ultimately from the late Proto-Indo-European/substrate *kar (“stone, hard”); see also Old Armenian քար (kʿar, “stone”), Sanskrit खर (khara, “hard, solid”), Welsh carreg (“stone”).

noun

1. A rocky outcrop; a rugged steep cliff or rock.
2. A rough, broken fragment of rock.
3. (geology) A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Pliocene to Pleistocene epochs.

Etymology 2

A variant of craw.

noun

1. (dialectal or obsolete) The neck or throat.