Category:Scrag

Scrag, n. Etym: [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 (zoöl.), a north Atlantic whalebone whale (agaphelus giddosus). By some it is Considered the young of the right whale.