scrag : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: scrag	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for scrag
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
scrag n a person who is unusually thin and scrawny [syn: {thin person}, skin and bones, scrag] Antonym(s): butterball, fat person, fatso, fatty, roly-poly lean end of the neck the lean end of a neck of veal Synonym(s): scrag, scrag end v strangle with an iron collar; "people were garrotted during the Inquisition in Spain" Synonym(s): garrote, garrotte, garotte, scrag wring the neck of; "The man choked his opponent" Synonym(s): choke, scrag
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Scrag \Scrag\ (skr[acr]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. Lady MacScrew, who . . . serves up a scrag of mutton on silver. --Thackeray. 2. A rawboned person. [Low] --Halliwell. 3. A ragged, stunted tree or branch. {Scrag whale} (Zo[94]l.), a North Atlantic whalebone whale ({Agaphelus gibbosus}). By some it is considered the young of the right whale.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.