Thesaurus: scrag

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1. n. Something thin, lean, or rough; a bony piece; especially, a bony neckpiece of meat; hence, humorously or in contempt, the neck.
2. n. A rawboned person.
3. n. A ragged, stunted tree or branch.
4. n. a person who is unusually thin and scrawny
5. n. lean end of the neck
6. n. the lean end of a neck of veal
7. v. strangle with an iron collar
8. v. wring the neck of
9. 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.
10. n. lean end of the neck n. the lean end of a neck of veal