Meaning of SCRAG
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | choke, garotte, garrotte, scrag end |
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| | See Also: | | compact, compress, constrict, contract, cut of mutton, cut of veal, neck, press, squeeze, strangle, strangulate, throttle | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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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