scrag
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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
‘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 Vaughan, Arthur Owen
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
He proceeded, therefore, to give his worthy spouse some initiatory instructions in the art of jointing a scrag of mutton, cutting out a pluck, or chinning a whole sheep upon an occasion.
From Forgotten Tales of Long Ago by Bedford, F. D.
Vincent Koch secured a turnover after Itoje was scragged at the base to end another promising attack.
From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2024
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
What I want to say is, have we tried every possible means of finding out who scragged Bickers last term?”
From The Master of the Shell by Reed, Talbot Baines
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
Winton had cleared for action as the Form poured out like puppies at play and was scragging Beetle.
From A Diversity of Creatures by Kipling, Rudyard
