ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Cragsman

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ˈkɹæɡzmən/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Cragsman is a noun meaning A (skillful) male climber of crags.

Meaning

A (skillful) male climber of crags.

Example Sentences

[H]ere and there are traversed by a winding footpath like a staircase, which few but native cragsmen are venturesome enough to scale.
A boyhood spent on the cliffs at Kirkcaple had made me a bold cragsman, and the porphyry of the Rooirand clearly gave excellent holds.
A skilled cragsman himself, he told his officers that he believed that a determined party of Gurkhas and other experienced climbers could reach the enemy by this route.
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.

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Related dictionary entries include cragswoman, cragger, cracksman, spiderman, climber, punter.

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