scrog

American  

[skrog] / skrɒg /

noun

Scot. and North England.

1. any naturally short or stunted tree or bush, as a crab apple tree or blackthorn bush.

2. scrogs, underbrush; brushwood.

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Other Word Forms

• scroggy adjective

Etymology

Origin of scrog

1350–1400; Middle English skrogg; probably akin to scrag

Example Sentences

“Scrogie Touchwood, if you please,” said the senior; “the scrog branch first, for it must become rotten ere it become touchwood—ha, ha, ha!—you take me.”

From St. Ronan's Well by Scott, Walter, Sir

Half way down there is a scrog of wood, dwarf alders and hawthorn, which makes an arch over the path.

From Prester John by Buchan, John

It was Alan's tryst to lie every night between twelve and two "in a bit scrog of wood by east of Silvermills and by south the south mill-lade."

From David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona by Stevenson, Robert Louis

He was aware that every tuft of reed and scrog of wood concealed a spear or a bowman.

From The Path of the King by Buchan, John

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From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.