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CRAGSMAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cragsman mean?
• CRAGSMAN (noun)
The noun CRAGSMAN has 1 sense:
1. a climber of vertical rock faces
Familiarity information: CRAGSMAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A climber of vertical rock faces
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
cragsman; rock climber
Hypernyms ("cragsman" is a kind of...):
climber (someone who climbs as a sport; especially someone who climbs mountains)
Context examples
Being something of a cragsman, I did manage to get half way to the top of that.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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