About The Word Scrag
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Scrag
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What's The Definition Of Scrag?
[n] the lean end of a neck of veal
[n] lean end of the neck [v] wring the neck of; "The man choked his opponent" [v] strangle with an iron collar; "people were garrotted during the Inquisition in Spain" Synonyms | Synonyms for Scrag: choke | garotte | garrotte | scrag end Related Terms | Find terms related to Scrag: See Also | compact | compress | constrict | contract | cut of mutton | cut of veal | neck | press | squeeze | strangle | strangulate | throttle Scrag In Webster's Dictionary \Scrag\, v. t. [Cf. {Scrag}.]
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. --Pall Mall
Mag.
\Scrag\ (skr[a^]g), n. [Cf. dial. Sw. skraka a great dry tree, a long, lean man, Gael. sgreagach dry, shriveled, rocky. See {Shrink}, and cf. {Scrog}, {Shrag}, n.] 1. 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. --Thackeray. 2. A rawboned person. [Low] --Halliwell. 3. A ragged, stunted tree or branch. {Scrag whale} (Zo["o]l.), a North Atlantic whalebone whale ({Agaphelus gibbosus}). By some it is considered the young of the right whale. |
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