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

‘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

But they collared Mr. Scarlett, and was in a fair way to scrag ’im, if Justice hadn’t intervened.

From The Tale of Timber Town by Grace, Alfred A. (Alfred Augustus)

The scrag of mutton costs from eight to ten cents; the barley is eight cents a pound—about two cents’ worth is sufficient; the onion may be reckoned as one cent.

From The Century Cook Book by Ronald, Mary