cragsman

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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.

From Harper's Young People, November 11, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

I was a bold cragsman," said Ochiltree, "once in my life; but it's lang syne, and nae mortal could speel them without a rope.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction by Mee, Arthur

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.

From A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa by Cornell, Frederick

All four men were born mountaineers, good climbers, and they were led by the most expert cragsman I have seen.

From The Ascent of the Matterhorn by Whymper, Edward

Waving our shillelagh, we shouted the cragsman to Glenmalure and Carn Tual, and Achill and Slieve League.

From Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry by Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William)