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cragsman

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈkɹæɡzmən/Part of speech nounSorted aacgmnrsStarts with CEnds with N0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a male climber of vertical rock faces

Word origin

From crag (“rocky outcrop; rugged steep rock or cliff”) + -s- (genitival interfix equivalent to -’s) + -man.

Used in a sentence

  • Francie o'Fowlsheugh, and he was the best craigsman that ever speel'd heugh, (mair by token, he brake his neck upon the Dunbuy of Slaines,) wadua hae ventured upon the Halket-head craigs after sun-down— […]
  • 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.
  • A boyhood spent on the cliffs at Kirkcaple had made me a bold cragsman, and the porphyry of the Rooirand clearly gave excellent holds.

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