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Scrag v. t. To seize, pull, or twist the neck of; specif., to hang by the neck; to kill by hanging. (Colloq.) "An enthusiastic mob will scrag me to a certainty the day war breaks out."

noun

Scrag n.

Something thin, lean, or rough; a bony piece; especially, a bony neckpiece of meat; hence, humorously or in contempt, the neck. "Lady MacScrew, who... serves up a scrag of mutton on silver."

A rawboned person. (Low)

A ragged, stunted tree or branch.

Scrag whale (Zool.), a North Atlantic whalebone whale (Agaphelus gibbosus). By some it is considered the young of the right whale.

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"Scrag" Quotes from Famous Books

... in bed with eyes as bright as beads. "I can't afford all that rubbish. Tell Mrs. Viney to boil two pounds of scrag-end of the neck for your dinners to-morrow, and I can have some of the broth. Yes, I should like some more water now, love. And will you get a ...

— The Railway Children • E. Nesbit

... from the shin, beef, which is full of nutriment, will have nearly one-half pound of meat on it. Take one pound of the scrag end of the neck of veal and four quarts of water. Wash the bones and add the cold water and bring slowly to a boil. Skim and then cover closely and cook for four hours. By this time the meat will have fallen from the bones. ...

— Mrs. Wilson's Cook Book - Numerous New Recipes Based on Present Economic Conditions • Mary A. Wilson

... open the door to keep it from sliding-to. Six foot two again. Then there's the sack—precious like an M and an R those two letters, aren't they? and M R is precious like the initials of six foot two again. I don't blame him if he did scrag old Bickers—very good job; and as it happens, it don't hurt our house very much now we're going to get all the sports; and I'm booked for the Swift Exhibition—L20 a-year for three years. We mean to back him up, and that's one reason why we're going ...

— The Master of the Shell • Talbot Baines Reed

... passed Mr. Pike's place there were no more trees. The houses are very bad indeed; the cattle in the pasture are of the small native breed, and have little appearance of milk; the sheep are very miserable and scraggy. I have often heard of Cook's recipes saying, "Take the scrag end of a piece of mutton." These recipes must have emanated from Achill Island, where the mutton must ...

— The Letters of "Norah" on her Tour Through Ireland • Margaret Dixon McDougall

... says Sir Richard Birnie, [14] "I adwise you to nose on your pals, and turn the [15] Snitch on the gang, that'll be the best vay [16] To save your scrag." Then, without delay, [17] He so prewailed on the treach'rous varmint That she was noodled by the Bow St. sarmint [18] Then the beaks they grabbed me, and to prison I vas dragged [19] And for fourteen years of my ...

— Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs - and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] • John S. Farmer