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The Grapes of Wrath vocabulary
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crag
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Definition:1. A steep, rugged rock; a cough, broken cliff, or point of a rock, on a ledge.2. (Geol.) A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Tertiary age.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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The bar silver is in the north cache; you can find it by the trend of the east hummock, ten fathoms south of the black crag with the face on it.
Robert Louis Stevenson. Treasure Island (1882)
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The way took us up again, rising into low rolling hills that gave way gradually to granite tors and crags.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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