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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Scrag" Quotes from Famous Books

... hero out o' an old scrag o' a man like me," Solomon began. "You may b'lieve what Mr. Hamilton says but I know better. I been chased by Death an' grabbed by the coat-tails frequent, but I been lucky enough to pull away. That's all. You new recruits 'a' been told how great ye be. I'm a-goin' fer to tell ...

— In the Days of Poor Richard • Irving Bacheller

... some of the middle, or scrag, of a small neck; season it; and either put to it, or not, a few slices of lean bacon or ham. If it is wanted of a high relish, add mace, cayenne, and nutmeg, to the salt and pepper; and also force-meat ...

— Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 • Barkham Burroughs

... "I've carried that 'are gimcrack nigh twenty long year round my old scrag, and when I'm sunk I want you to take it off, Doctor. Keep it safe till you go to Connecticut, and then some day take a tack over to Simsbury. Don't ye go through the Gap, but go 'long out on the turnpike over the mountain, and down t'other side to Avon, and so nor'ard till ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, March, 1858 • Various

... the scrag end of a neck of veal, which you can usually buy for ten cents, into a pot half full of boiling water, with a half tablespoonful of salt, and half a pound of bacon, or salt pork, (cost six cents,) half a pound of rice, (cost five cents,) and an onion stuck with six ...

— Twenty-Five Cent Dinners for Families of Six • Juliet Corson

... 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 be ...

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

Words linked to "Scrag" : compact, press, squeeze, scrag end, spindlelegs, scraggy, throttle, constrict, choke, garotte, skin and bones, compress, strangulate, neck, fat person, person, individual, somebody, someone, strangle, garrote, cut of veal, cut of mutton, contract, spindleshanks