scrag

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

Boil it up once, and serve it for boiled rabbits, partridges, scrag or knuckle of veal or roast 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 Mary Eaton

Stew a scrag of mutton: put in a peck of peas, a bunch of turnips cut small, a few carrots, onions, lettuce, and some parsley.

From The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed. by Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury

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 Alfred A. (Alfred Augustus) Grace

Centre Emma Orr scragged Dow with a stretching cover tackle as the England wing bore down on the line after a charge down.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2025

That setback, getting scragged by Ardie Savea at the back of the breakdown, will have preyed on his mind.

From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2022

Peter Nelson was almost to the tryline when he was scragged by Beauden Barrett.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 2, 2019

Petri takes it but he’s scragged and knocks on on halfway.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 11, 2015

“Who scragged that fellow?” asked Hooker, as soon as the campaign was over, looking up and down.

From Follow My leader The Boys of Templeton by W. S. (Walter S.) Stacey

The best ones have been breathtaking, beginning with the 5-3 scragging of Chelsea on New Year’s Day 2015, when a Spurs team with five Bale-money hang-overs in the squad ran the champions-in-waiting into the ground.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 27, 2019

But still De Gea came back for more, bristling like a lovable cartoon puppy, the hardest kid in chess club, seeming to grow in conviction with every scragging.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 19, 2013

The prop Davit Zirakashvili was in the sin bin then after scragging Richard Wigglesworth from a blatantly offside position.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 9, 2010

For this she was put to scragging, second-picking the bushes that had a few inferior puffs left on the twigs by swifter hands than hers.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison

No amount of hacking and scragging in a scrimmage can damp his ardour or ruffle the serenity of his temper.

From The Prospector by Ralph Connor