Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA stunted or shrivelled bush. · Brushwood. · The branch of a tree, especially one used as a charge in Scottish heraldry. · The crab-apple tree.
Compare scrag, or Scottish Gaelic sgrogag (“anything shriveled”), from sgrag (“to compress, shrivel”).
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- Cognate mentionsgrogaggd
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