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▪ I. scrog, n. Chiefly Sc. and north.|skrɒg|
Forms: 4 skrogg, 5 scroge, 7 skrog, 6– scrog(g.
[App. related to scrag n.2; cf. shrog.]
1. A stunted bush; usually pl., brushwood, underwood.
a1400Morte Arth. 1641 Discoueres now sekerly skrogges and other, That no skathelle in the skroggez skorne vs here⁓aftyre. 1483Cath. Angl. 326/1 A Scroge; vbi A buske. 1513Douglas æneis ix. Prol. 37 Full litill it wald delite To write of scroggis, broym, haddir, or rammale. 1615W. Lawson Country Housew. Gard. (1626) 32 What an infinite number of bushes, shrubs, and skrogs of hazels, thornes, and other profitable wood. 1719Ramsay 3rd Answ. to Hamilton 18 Yet sometimes leave the Riggs and Bog, Your Howms, and Braes and shady Scrog. 1820Blackw. Mag. VI. 568, I have gathered nuts from the scrogs of Tynron. 1893Stevenson Catriona xi, In a bit scrog of a wood by east of Silvermills.
b. Her. A branch of a tree: a blazon sometimes used by Scottish heralds.
1780Edmondson Her. Gloss., Scrogs, the term used by the Scots in blazoning a small branch of a tree. 1828–40Berry Encycl. Herald. II, Scrogie, or Scroggie, az. a chev. or, betw. two scrogs, or starved branches, in chief, and a man's heart in base, ar. 1868Cussans Heraldry vi. (1893) 104 Amongst Scotch Heralds a Branch is termed a Scrog.
2. a. The blackthorn. b. The crab-apple tree.
1691Ray N.C. Words 61 Scrogs; Blackthorn. 1853[see 3].
3. attrib., as scrog-apple, scrog-branch, scrog-bush, scrog-tree.
1853G. Johnston Bot. E. Bord. 79 Pyrus Malus..Crab⁓apple: Scrogs or *Scrog-apple.
1824Scott St. Ronan's xxxvi, ‘Scrogie Touchwood, if you please,’ said the senior; ‘the *scrog branch first, for it must become rotten ere it become touchwood.’
1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. 288 The kingis body is layd on a horse, and twa myles frome the castell castne in a *scrogg buss. 1824Scott St. Ronan's xviii, He got a handsome piece of parchment, blazoned with a white lion for Mowbray, to be borne quarterly, with three stunted or scrog-bushes for Scrogie, and became thenceforth Mr. Scrogie Mowbray.
1887R. M. Calder in Minstrelsy of Merse (1893) 259 The *scrogg tree in the meadow.
▪ II. scrog, v. dial.|skrɒg|
[f. scrog n.]
trans. To cut with a hook.
1847Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. VIII. ii. 282 Beans are either pulled by women or cut with a hook, ‘scrogged’. 1893in Cozens-Hardy Broad Norfolk 84 Scrog, to cut field beans with a sickle or hook. |