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scrag verb trans. [skrag] Infl. -gg-. M18.
[from SCRAG noun1. In sense 3 perh. back-form. from SCRAGGY adjective1.]
slang.
a. Execute by hanging. Also, wring the neck of, strangle. M18.
b. Seize roughly by the neck; treat (a person) roughly, manhandle. M19.
c. Kill, murder. US. M20.
Subject (a spring or suspension system) to a process of overextension and compression in order to improve strength and set. Also, (foll. by out) shorten the normal length of a spring by a specified amount by this means. Freq. as scragging verbal noun & ppl adjective. E20.
Scrape or drag (esp. the hair) back or up. rare. M20.
L. Durrell Their hair scragged up in ribbons and plaits.
scragger noun (rare) a person who or thing which scrags someone or something; spec. (arch. colloq.) a hangman: L19.