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

Stew a pound and a half of scrag of mutton, with three pints of water till reduced to a quart.

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

Boil in a quart of water a pound and a half of veal, from the knuckle or scrag end of the neck.

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

‘I send Ou’ Baviyàan out t’ree days back to bring some wolf meat, an’ here he comes now wid yust an ole scrag of a one.

From Old Hendrik's Tales by Arthur Owen Vaughan

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

The cull was scragged because he could not dawb; the rogue was hanged because he could not bribe.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

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

But he would have submitted to any amount of scragging from them because they were his friends and because he loved Gilbert and because they, too, in their turn submitted to being scragged.

From Changing Winds A Novel by St. John G. (St. John Greer) Ervine