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Scragged

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scrag  (skrg)
n.
1. A bony or scrawny person or animal.
2. A piece of lean or bony meat, especially a neck of mutton.
3. Slang The human neck.
tr.v. scragged, scrag·ging, scrags Slang
To wring the neck of; strangle.

[Perhaps from dialectal crag, neck, from Middle English cragge, from Middle Dutch crghe, throat.]


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Williams sniped from a five metre scrum but was scragged just short.
This year it will also introduce a newcomer to the riding ranks in apprentice Katy Ferguson, who has worked at Scragged Oak Farm for some time but has only recently been licenced.
But Bignell was scragged short of the line by the visitors' outstanding scrum-half Nicky Griffiths and although Tristan Roberts kicked three penalties and a conversion, it was Griffiths who emerged as the star of the show.
 
 
 
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