From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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.
[1913 Webster]
Lady MacScrew, who . . . serves up a scrag of mutton
on silver. --Thackeray.
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2. A rawboned person. [Low] --Halliwell.
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3. A ragged, stunted tree or branch.
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{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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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
scrag
n 1: a person who is unusually thin and scrawny [syn: {thin
person}, {skin and bones}, {scrag}] [ant: {butterball},
{fat person}, {fatso}, {fatty}, {roly-poly}]
2: lean end of the neck
3: the lean end of a neck of veal [syn: {scrag}, {scrag end}]
v 1: strangle with an iron collar; "people were garrotted during
the Inquisition in Spain" [syn: {garrote}, {garrotte},
{garotte}, {scrag}]
2: wring the neck of; "The man choked his opponent" [syn:
{choke}, {scrag}]
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