scrag

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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

The bones and scrag make excellent gravy stewed down, and if done very gently, the meat is not bad eating.

From The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual by Kitchiner, William

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

Ingredients—2 lb. of potatoes.1 lb. of scrag end of mutton.� lb. of onions.Pepper and salt.

From The Skilful Cook A Practical Manual of Modern Experience by Harrison, Mary