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

Cut off the scrag to boil, and cover it with onion sauce.

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 chops look somewhat better than the chopped-up scrag, but the nourishing quality is as good in the latter.

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