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cragsman

[kragz-muhn] / ˈkrægz mən /
NOUN
mountaineer
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I became a daring cragsman, a character to which an English lad can seldom aspire, for in England there are neither crags nor mountains.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 02 — Fiction by Arthur Mee

A boyhood spent on the cliffs at Kirkcaple had made me a bold cragsman, and the porphyry of the Rooirand clearly gave excellent holds.

From Prester John by John Buchan

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 T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston

Dickson's heart fell, for he did not profess to be a cragsman and had indeed a horror of precipitous places.

From Huntingtower by John Buchan

Excepting head, however, no other quality of a cragsman is required for Sharp Edge; the footing is ample, and the hands would be less called into requisition than even on Striding Edge.'

From Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England by W. P. Haskett Smith

The superman is Captain Keith Mallory, a New Zealand mountaineer, "idol of the cragsmen," hero of legendary exploits in the Cretan resistance.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had heard of many cragsmen who had lost their lives in that way, and his own position was by no means the most favorable to defend himself against attack.

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

La Fauconnaire is, I believe, unclimbable except at one place, at least for those who are not experienced cragsmen or Alpine experts.

From Jethou or Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles by Ernest R. (Ernest Richard) Suffling

This added to the evil repute of the mountain; years passed before the cragsmen would have anything further to do with it.

From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Edwin Asa Dix

Their enemy is worthy of them, for the chamois hunters, the foresters, the cragsmen of the Austrian Alps are no mean antagonists, as all of us know who have shot and climbed with them.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War by Allen L. (Allen Leon) Churchill




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