n. [ W. craig; akin to Gael. creag, Corn. karak, Armor. karrek. ] 1. A steep, rugged rock; a rough, broken cliff, or point of a rock, on a ledge. [ 1913 Webster ]

From crag to crag the signal flew. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Geol.) A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Tertiary age. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ A form of craw: cf. D. kraag neck, collar, G. kragen. See Craw. ] 1. The neck or throat [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And bear the crag so stiff and so state. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The neck piece or scrag of mutton. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of crags, or steep, broken rocks; abounding with prominences, points, and inequalities; rough; rugged. [ 1913 Webster ]

Into its cragged rents descend. J. Baillie. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being cragged; cragginess. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being craggy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of crags; rugged with projecting points of rocks; as, the craggy side of a mountain. “The craggy ledge.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Cragsmen One accustomed to climb rocks or crags; esp., one who makes a business of climbing the cliffs overhanging the sea to get the eggs of sea birds or the birds themselves. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 (Zool.), a North Atlantic whalebone whale (Agaphelus gibbosus). By some it is considered the young of the right whale. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. ]

a. 1. Rough with irregular points, or a broken surface; scraggy; as, a scragged backbone. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Lean and rough; scraggy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality or state of being scragged. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a scraggy manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being scraggy; scraggedness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Scragger superl. Scraggiest. ] 1. Rough with irregular points; scragged. “A scraggy rock.” J. Philips. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Lean and rough; scragged. “His sinewy, scraggy neck.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Scraggy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a scraggy neck. [ 1913 Webster ]