Scrag
n.
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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.
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A rawboned person. [Low]
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A ragged, stunted tree or branch.
Phrases & Compounds
- Scrag whale
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a North Atlantic whalebone whale (Agaphelus gibbosus). By some it is considered the young of the right whale.
Scrag
v. t.
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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.