scrag


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Synonyms for scrag

a person who is unusually thin and scrawny

lean end of the neck

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the lean end of a neck of veal

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strangle with an iron collar

wring the neck of

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[14] We observed the overall mean age being 36 years (range 18-67 years) and 43 years in SCRAG positive group as compared to 35 years in SCRAG negative group (p<0.046).
However, comparison with a suite of samples from elsewhere in the Scrag Lake pluton demonstrates that planar microstructures (some with possible decoration), kink banding, and grain mosaicism occur only in samples from the rim of the North structure and are similar to petrographic features observed in samples from the rim of the Bloody Creek structure.
"Getting the play away from a breakdown is one area like that, and you find when you get the ball it is not very consistent with bodies everywhere and people trying to scrag your collar or drag you in.
Tom Dawson, playing at fly half, threw a dummy and raced 40 metres and almost scored only for the winger tracking back to scrag him down just short of the line.
Then there are those joyless midweek evenings spent dining on mediocre scrag, desperately trying to find a positive among a bouillabaisse of negatives: "The butter was fresh."
How many of us nowadays would buy scrag end of lamb or brisket or pig's hocks?
Devonian monzogranite, namely the Scrag Lake and Kejimkujik plutons, and leucomonzogranite, the Davis Lake Pluton, intruded the Halifax and Goldenville formations (Horne and Corey 1994).
There he goes, leaving many of his choice cuts on the shelf and still puts out the most succulent chateaubriand against Everton's scrag end of lamb.
I couldn't help but be disappointed that my chips were thinner than normal, with plenty of scrag ends.
Moyes would be planning frugal, hearty meals on a shoe-string budget with scrag ends of meat and vegetables grown on his allotment.
"Fair play to them - they keep getting away with it so they keep doing it - and who can blame them?" The Scot added: "Referees have got to enforce the laws, but if teams can get offside, scrag the scrum-half and all the rest of it, then they will keep doing it until they get penalised.
England received an early let-off when Carter missed a straightforward penalty but when the All Blacks spread play wide, Borthwick was on hand to scrag Cowan at the back of a ruck.
If we were hard up, Mam made a stew with some scrag end of mutton, vegetables and a handful of barley.
It's the cost of real food, like scrag end, haddock or chops that is getting a proper kicking.
scrag; scram; scream; scrum; SCRUMMAGE; scum; sucre; sumac.