Scrag Necked - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: scrag neckedScrag necked
Having a scraggy neck...
Scrag
Something thin lean or rough a bony piece especially a bony neckpiece of meat hence humorously or in contempt the neck...
Scragged
Rough with irregular points or a broken surface scraggy as a scragged backbone...
Ewe necked
Having a neck like a ewe said of horses in which the arch of the neck is deficient being somewhat hollowed out...
Necked
Having such a neck chiefly used in composition as stiff necked...
Devil on the neck
Devil on the neck, an instrument of torture, formerly used to extort confessions, etc. It was made of several irons, which were fastened to the neck and legs and wrenched together so as to break the back...
Neck verse
Neck verse, means a verse, which was used as a literary test for an accused who claimed benefit of clergy. An accused who read the passage satisfactorily would not receive the maximum sentence (the person's neck would be saved), Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1053....
bull necked
Having a short thick and muscular neck like that of a bull...
Deer neck
A deerlike or thin ill formed neck as of a horse...
Low necked
Cut low in the neck decollete low cut said of a womans dress...
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