In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
SCRAGGING
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
Verb
scragging
present participle of scrag
Source: Wiktionary
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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