Definition of Scragging

1. Verb. (present participle of scrag) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Scragging

1. scrag [v] - See also: scrag

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scragging

scrae
scraes
scraffle
scraffled
scraffles
scraffling
scrag
scrag end
scragged
scraggedness
scraggier
scraggiest
scraggily
scragginess
scragging (current term)
scragglier
scraggliest
scraggliness
scraggly
scraggy
scragly
scrags
scraich
scraiched
scraiching
scraichs
scraigh
scraighed
scraighing

Literary usage of Scragging

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Railway Engineer (1905)
"... and then to resume its original cambre; and the back plate, when detached from the rest of the plates after scragging, to stand up to 5 ins. cambre. ..."

2. Football: The Rugby Union Game by Francis Marshall (1892)
"In another journal the game was styled " a mixture of hocking, scragging, ... scragging being tabooed and gouging and biting unheard of in connection with ..."

3. Argot and Slang: A New French and English Dictionary of the Cant Words by Albert Marie Victor Barrère (1889)
"Master Charley Bates, in common with his " pals," called hanging "scragging" :— " He'll come ... that "scragging" and hanging were one and the same thing. ..."

4. School: A Monthly Record of Educational Thought and Progress by Laurie Magnus, Robert Binney Lattimer (1908)
"A purely local feature known as " scragging " gave the game the necessary ... We do not ask to go back to the days of " scragging " ; but give us back our ..."

5. NEHRP Commentary on the Gidelines for the Seismic Rehabilitation of Buildingsedited by Eugene Zeller edited by Eugene Zeller (2000)
"Pressure =7.0MPa Frequency =0.1 Hz Scragged Shear strain Figure C9-5 Force-Displacement Loops of a High-Damping Rubber Bearing scragging is the process of ..."

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