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English
Etymology
Compare scrag.
Pronunciation
Noun
shrag (plural shrags)
- A twig cut from a tree.
Verb
shrag (third-person singular simple present shrags, present participle shragging, simple past and past participle shragged)
- (uncommon) To cut or lop; to trim or prune (something, such as a tree).
- 1552, Hulget:
- Twygges or boughes of trees cut of, or shragged, Shragge vnder so that the sunne maye come to the ground,
1900 December 1, The Oxford Times, section 2:About 350 loads of excellent beech timber, with the felling fagots, 1,500 shragging fagots, 5 lots of small ash, 15 large ash, and 22 large elm trees, [...] will be sold by auction.
- (Can we date this quote?) James Wright, Rain / Edward Thomas (poem), quoted in Above the River: The Complete Poems (1990), page 19:
- It is raining today in Steubenville. / Blessed be the dead whom the rain rains upon. / And damned the living who have their few days. / And blessed your thorned face, Your shragged November, / Your leaf, / Lost.
References
- “shrag”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- Joseph Wright, editor (1905), “SHRAG, v. and sb.1.”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: , volume V (R–S), London: Henry Frowde, , publisher to the English Dialect Society, ; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC.
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