cragfast
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Stranded on a crag (inaccessible rock).
Example Sentences
- "a cragfast sheep"
- "Eventually, having seen the dangers of the ledge still more clearly, and the body of a sheep which had become cragfast at the same spot, he spotted a solution to his difficulty. As he looked down he could see stones on the ledge far beneath him which must have been piled there by a shepherd trying vainly to reach the cragfast sheep whose body he had just passed."
- "Mountain rescue crews say the men, who were “soloing” or not using any ropes, called for help after becoming cragfast on Jacob’s Ladder around 4pm on Saturday."
Etymology
Etymology tree English crag Proto-Germanic *fastuz Proto-West Germanic *fast Old English fæst Middle English fast English fast English cragfast From crag (“rocky outcrop”) + fast.