Definitions for crannog

crannog cran·nog

Spelling: [kran-uh g]
IPA: /ˈkræn əg/

Crannog is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 134 anagrams from letters in crannog (acgnnor).

Definitions for crannog

noun

  1. (in ancient Ireland and Scotland) a lake dwelling, usually built on an artificial island.
  2. a small, artificial, fortified island constructed in bogs in ancient Scotland and Ireland.

Origin of crannog

1850-55; Irish crannóg wooden frame or vessel, pole, crannog, equivalent to crann beam, tree + -óg noun suffix

Examples for crannog

On the borders of Tipperary is an ancient causeway leading presumably to a crannog or lake-dwelling.

The loch having been drained away, we proceeded to exfoliate the crannog.

Evidently they were kitchen waste from the crannog, drifted to that quarter before the prevailing south-west wind.

Carlingwark Loch contains several islets, on one of which is a crannog, or ancient lake dwelling.

A crannog, or insulated fortress, usually constructed on piles in a loch; the same word as crannag, a pulpit.

Until recent years no crannog had been found in this country.

The island in the lake was probably a crannog, or artificial fortified island, such as are common on the lakes of Ireland.

In the crannog of Lochlee, near Tarbolton, a bronze pin was found (fig. 218), the head of which was inclosed in a ring.

Word Value for crannog
Scrable

10

Words with friends

14

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