Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CRAG, n. [Sax. hracca, the neck; Scot. crag, or craig; Gr. ῥαχις. The same word probably as the preceding, from its roughness, or break. We now call it rack.]

The neck, formerly applied to the neck of a human being, as in Spenser. We now apply it to the neck or neck-piece of mutton, and call it a rack of mutton.