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

This usual method of making mutton broth with the scrag, is by no means the most economical method of obtaining it; for which see Nos.

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

And the ass, for its part, responded to the caress by rubbing its head against the boy's breast and by most energetically twitching its scrag of a tail.

From The Aztec Treasure-House by Janvier, Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone)

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