Scrag (?), v. t. [Cf. Scrag.] To seize, pull, or twist the neck of; specif., to hang by the neck; to kill by hanging.
An enthusiastic mob will scrag me to a certainty the day war breaks out. Pall Mall Mag.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.