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   Scrag (skrăg), 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.
   
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   Lady MacScrew, who . . . serves up a scrag of mutton on silver. Thackeray.
   
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   2. A rawboned person. [Low] Halliwell.
   
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   3. A ragged, stunted tree or branch.
   
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   Scrag whale (Zool.), a North Atlantic whalebone whale (Agaphelus gibbosus). By some it is considered the young of the right whale.
   
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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.
   
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