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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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