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Scrag  v. t.  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."






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"Scrag" Quotes from Famous Books



... of mutton, three quarts water, five carrots, five turnips, two onions, four tablespoonfuls barley, a little salt. Soak mutton in water for an hour, cut off scrag, and put it in stewpan with three quarts of water. As soon as it boils, skim well, and then simmer for one and one-half hours. Cut best end of mutton into cutlets, dividing it with two bones in each; take ...
— The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) - The Whole Comprising A Comprehensive Cyclopedia Of Information For - The Home • Mrs. F.L. Gillette

... know it isn't pleasant, when you've been used to living in a big way, and managing hogsheads and all that, to go and put your nose in by somebody else's fireside, or to sit down by yourself to a scrag or a knuckle; but, thank God! my father's a sober man and likely to live; and if you've got a man by the chimney-corner, it doesn't matter if he's childish—the business needn't ...
— Silas Marner - The Weaver of Raveloe • George Eliot



Words linked to "Scrag" :   individual, garrote, fat person, squeeze, person, cut of veal, constrict, spindlelegs, cut of mutton, compress, strangulate, spindleshanks, garrotte, thin person, scrag end, garotte, neck



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