scrag

noun

A bony or scrawny person or animal.

noun

A piece of lean or bony meat, especially a neck of mutton.

noun

The human neck.

transitive verb

To wring the neck of; strangle.

noun

A crooked branch.

noun

Something thin or lean, and at the same time rough.

noun

A scraggy or scrawny person.

noun

A scrag-whale.

noun

A remnant, or refuse part; specifically, the neck, or a piece of the neck, of beef or mutton.

Scragged or scraggy: said of whales.