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

Uncle Billy was seated on the porch steps with a pan of drippings in his hand, wherein the cook had grudgingly put the scrag of a fried chicken and a hunk of cold corn bread.

From The Comings of Cousin Ann by Emma Speed Sampson

Take four pounds of beef, a scrag of mutton, about a dozen large carrots, four onions, some pepper and salt; put them into a gallon of water, and boil very gently for four hours.

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

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

From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2022

A chasing Maro Itoje scragged Hugo Keenan and pints were spilled in delight.

From BBC ● Mar. 12, 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

His glance roved from the set face of the cowpuncher and through the scragged branches of the tree.

From The Rangeland Avenger by Max Brand

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

And then to rampage they begin; Sweet William is scragging a rose; Sweet-pea in a neighborly way, Is pulling young marigold's nose!

From Donahoe's Magazine, Vol. XV, No. 4, April, 1886 Volume 15 (January 1886 - July 1886) by Various