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

“Why, then, we’ll just fail, that’s all; an’ if they should scrag us for it, no matter.”

From The Battle and the Breeze by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

Prepare some veal gravy from the knuckle or scrag, with some shank-bones of mutton, seasoned with herbs, onions, mace, and white pepper, to be poured into the pie when it returns from the oven.

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

The scrag of mutton costs from eight to ten cents; the barley is eight cents a pound—about two cents’ worth is sufficient; the onion may be reckoned as one cent.

From The Century Cook Book by Ronald, Mary