Hypertext Webster Gateway: "scrag"
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) 1.7 (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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