[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

scrag \scrag\ skra^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.
      1913 webster

            lady macscrew, who . . . serves up a scrag of mutton
            on silver.                            --thackeray.
      1913 webster

   2. a rawboned person. low --halliwell.
      1913 webster

   3. a ragged, stunted tree or branch.
      1913 webster

   scrag whale zool., a north atlantic whalebone whale
      agaphelus gibbosus. by some it is considered the young
      of the right whale.
      1913 webster
see also:
shrink scrog shrag scrag whale agaphelus gibbosus 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
   webster 1913 suppl.
see also:
scrag 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

scrag
     n 1: lean end of the neck
     2: the lean end of a neck of veal syn: scrag end
     v 1: strangle with an iron collar; "people were garrotted during
          the inquisition in spain" syn: garrote, garrotte, garotte
     2: wring the neck of; "the man choked his opponent" syn: choke
     also: scragging, scragged
see also:
scrag end garrote garrotte garotte choke scragging 
scragged 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

40 moby thesaurus words for "scrag":
   ko, and quarter, call off, cancel, complete, delete, dispose of,
   draw, drop the curtain, end off, expunge, extinguish, finalize,
   finish, fold up, get it over, get over with, get through with,
   gibbet, give the quietus, hang, kayo, kibosh, kill, knock out,
   liquidate, lynch, neck, noose, perfect, polish off, put paid to,
   rackabones, shoot down, stack of bones, stretch, string up, turn,
   wipe out, zap

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