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Pronunciation : Scrag
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [Cf. dial. Sw. skraka a great dry tree, a long, lean man, Gael. sgreagach dry, shriveled, rocky. See Shrink, and cf. Scrog, Shrag, n.]
Definition : 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?l.), a North Atlantic whalebone whale (Agaphelus giddosus). By some it is considered the young of the right whale.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913