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

The scrag part is best made into a pie, or broth.

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

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 Sampson, Emma Speed

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