English Dictionary

scrag

動詞

口語 廃用

(obsolete, colloquial) To hang on a gallows, or to choke, garotte, or strangle. / To harass; to manhandle. / To destroy or kill.

日本語の意味

絞殺する、首を絞める、またはギロチンなどにかける（吊るす） / 手荒に扱う、いやがらせする / 破壊する、殺す

The old hangman was summoned to scrag the prisoner at first light, as the sentence demanded.

年老いた処刑人は、判決どおり夜明けに囚人を絞首刑に処するために呼ばれた。

意味（1）

(obsolete, colloquial) To hang on a gallows, or to choke, garotte, or strangle.

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

意味（2）

To harass; to manhandle.

'...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?'

意味（3）

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.

scrags （ present singular third-person ）

scragging （ participle present ）

scragged （ participle past ）

scragged （ past ）