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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 scrag /ˈskræg/
 骨瘦如柴的人,弱不禁風的植物,頸肉(vt.)絞死,纏住敵隊頸項不放

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Scrag n.
 1. 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.
 2. A rawboned person. [Low]
 3. A ragged, stunted tree or branch.
 Scrag whale Zool., a North Atlantic whalebone whale (Agaphelus gibbosus). By some it is considered the young of the right whale.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Scrag v. t.  To seize, pull, or twist the neck of; specif., to hang by the neck; to kill by hanging. [Colloq.]
    An enthusiastic mob will scrag me to a certainty the day war breaks out.    --Pall Mall Mag.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 scrag
      n 1: lean end of the neck
      2: the lean end of a neck of veal [syn: scrag end]
      v 1: strangle with an iron collar; "people were garrotted during
           the Inquisition in Spain" [syn: garrote, garrotte, garotte]
      2: wring the neck of; "The man choked his opponent" [syn: choke]
      [also: scragging, scragged]