scrog

English

Alternative forms

• scroag

Etymology

Compare scrag, or Scottish Gaelic sgrogag (“anything shriveled”), from sgrag (“to compress, shrivel”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒɡ

Noun

scrog (countable and uncountable, plural scrogs)

1. A stunted or shrivelled bush.
2. Brushwood.
3. (heraldry, countable) The branch of a tree, especially one used as a charge in Scottish heraldry.
   • 1680, George Mackenzie, Observations Upon the Laws and Customs of Nations, as to Precedency, page 59:

     Argent, a Palm-tree growing out of a Mount in base proper, surmounted of S. Andrews-cross Gules, on a chiet azur [...]. Azur, a Cheveron Or, betwixt two Scrogs or starved branches in chief, and a mans heart in base argent.

4. (Scotland, countable) The crab-apple tree.
5. (dialect) A blackthorn.