3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Scrag  \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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Scrag  \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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  scrag 
  n  1:  lean  end  of  the  neck 
  2:  the  lean  end  of  a  neck  of  veal  [syn:  {scrag  end}] 
  v  1:  strangle  with  an  iron  collar;  "people  were  garrotted  during 
  the  Inquisition  in  Spain"  [syn:  {garrotte},  {garotte}] 
  2:  wring  the  neck  of  "The  man  choked  his  opponent"  [syn:  {choke}] 

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