| Scrag | 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 ]
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| 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. ] |
