Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is dexterous in climbing crags; specifically, one who climbs cliffs overhanging the sea to procure sea-fowls or their eggs. Also
craigsman .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One accustomed to climb rocks or crags; esp., one who makes a business of climbing the cliffs overhanging the sea to get the eggs of sea birds or the birds themselves.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
climber ofcrags or other vertical rocks.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a climber of vertical rock faces
Etymologies
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Examples
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Tehaa, alone among the Raiateans, was cragsman enough to venture the perilous way, and dawn found him in a rock-barricaded nook, a hundred yards to the right of Grief and Mauriri.
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A boyhood spent on the cliffs at Kirkcaple had made me a bold cragsman, and the porphyry of the Rooirand clearly gave excellent holds.
Prester John 2005
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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.
Lavengro 2004
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But now, at the present moment, he was unwilling to make essay of his prowess as a cragsman.
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No cragsman in broadest daylight could do such a thing, he asserted.
Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North Samuel Rutherford Crockett
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It is not an essential part of the route we are about to suggest, and we would rather decline the responsibility of recommending it to the attention of any one who is not a practised cragsman.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various
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With this new danger menacing him, the young cragsman lay flat down on the rock, and remained motionless, while he offered up an earnest prayer to Heaven that the bird might not discover him.
Harper's Young People, November 11, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly Various
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Pale, trembling in every limb, and spattered with the vulture's blood as well as that which trickled from the many wounds he had received, the valiant young cragsman sank helplessly to the ground, where he lay for some minutes, paralyzed with the terrible exertion he had gone through.
Harper's Young People, November 18, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly Various
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But I never got within a thousand feet of it, for the crowning bastions are almost sheer, and would need a better cragsman than myself to negotiate.
A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa Frederick Cornell
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He must be helmsman and chief, the cragsman, the rifleman, the boat steerer.
Foreword 1916
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