Found 2 items, similar to scrag.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: scrag scrag n 1: lean end of the neck 2: the lean end of a neck of veal [syn: scrag end] v 1: strangle with an iron collar; “people were garrotted during the Inquisition in Spain” [syn: garrote, garrotte, garotte] 2: wring the neck of; “The man choked his opponent” [syn: choke] [also: scragging, scragged]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Scrag Scrag \Scrag\, v. t. [Cf. Scrag.] 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. --Pall Mall Mag. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 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]