The Collaborative International Dictionary
Agaphelus gibbosus
Scrag \Scrag\ (skr[a^]g), n. [Cf. dial. Sw. skraka a great dry tree, a long, lean man, Gael. sgreagach dry, shriveled, rocky. See Shrink, and cf. Scrog, Shrag, n.]
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Something thin, lean, or rough; a bony piece; especially, a bony neckpiece of meat; hence, humorously or in contempt, the neck.
Lady MacScrew, who . . . serves up a scrag of mutton on silver.
--Thackeray. A rawboned person. [Low]
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A ragged, stunted tree or branch.
Scrag whale (Zo["o]l.), a North Atlantic whalebone whale ( Agaphelus gibbosus). By some it is considered the young of the right whale.