scrag

An enthusiastic mob will scrag me to a certainty the day war breaks out.

'...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?'

… I went out lookin' for a line of retreat for my men. A man found me. I abolished him—privatim—scragged him.