scrag

Example Sentences

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After all, eggs hatched at 40 plus, like mine, represent the scrag end of the market.

From The Guardian • Oct. 18, 2014

The expressionist body is a scrag of mutton with big extremities, very unlike the prosperous Renaissance nudes that, however mutated, survived in Picasso and Matisse.

From Time Magazine Archive

If to put over cold pies, make it of a small bare knuckle of veal, or of a scrag of mutton.

From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Eaton, Mary, fl. 1823-1849

But they collared Mr. Scarlett, and was in a fair way to scrag ’im, if Justice hadn’t intervened.

From The Tale of Timber Town by Grace, Alfred A. (Alfred Augustus)

Take some of the middle or scrag of a small neck, and season it, adding or not a few slices of lean bacon or ham.

From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Eaton, Mary, fl. 1823-1849