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
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 Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady
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.
The chops look somewhat better than the chopped-up scrag, but the nourishing quality is as good in the latter.
From The Century Cook Book by Ronald, Mary
