SCRAGGED

SCRAG

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


Adjective

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

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



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