choke, scrag
(verb) wring the neck of; “The man choked his opponent”
garrote, garrotte, garotte, scrag
(verb) strangle with an iron collar; “people were garrotted during the Inquisition in Spain”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
scragged (comparative more scragged, superlative most scragged)
Rough with irregular points or a broken surface; scraggy.
Lean and rough; scraggy.
Source: Wiktionary
Scrag"ged, a.
1. Rough with irregular points, or a broken surface; scraggy; as, a scragged backbone.
2. Lean and rough; scraggy.
Scrag, n. Etym: [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 (Zoöl.), a North Atlantic whalebone whale (Agaphelus giddosus). By some it is considered the young of the right whale.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
5 June 2025
(verb) raise or support (the level of printing) by inserting a piece of paper or cardboard under the type; “underlay the plate”
According to Guinness World Records, the largest coffee press is 230 cm (7 ft 6 in) in height and 72 cm (2 ft 4 in) in diameter and was created by Salzillo Tea and Coffee (Spain) in Murcia, Spain, in February 2007. The cafetière consists of a stainless steel container, a filtering piston, and a superior lid.
