LekhoriLekhoriA thin or scrawny person or animal.
In any event he might have wakened the long scrag by so doing.
The lean end of a neck of mutton; the scrag end.
The butcher and the porkman painted up only the leanest scrags of meat; the baker, the coarsest of meagre loaves.
The neck, especially of a sheep.
Perhaps related to Norwegian skragg (a lean person), dialectal Swedish skragge (old and torn thing), Danish skrog (hull, carcass); perhaps related to shrink.
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'...I urged him ... to ... try the Ickenham System ... a little thing I knocked together in my bachelor days ... it has a good many points in common with all-in wrestling and osteopathy. I generally recommend it to diffident wooers and it always works like magic...' Johnny stared. 'You mean you told McMurdo to … scrag her?'
To destroy or kill.
[...] I went out lookin' for a line of retreat for my men. A man found me. I abolished him—privatim—scragged him.