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English → English (gcide) Definition: Scrag whale 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. [1913 Webster] 2. A rawboned person. [Low] --Halliwell. [1913 Webster] 3. A ragged, stunted tree or branch. [1913 Webster] Scrag whale (Zo["o]l.), a North Atlantic whalebone whale (Agaphelus gibbosus). By some it is considered the young of the right whale. [1913 Webster]