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shrog

shrog is the alternative spelling of scrog.

Meaning of scrog

Noun

scrog (countable and uncountable, plural scrogs)

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

Forms of shrog

pluralshrogs

Questions about shrog

What is shrog the alternative spelling of?
Shrog is the alternative spelling of scrog.

Words near shrog in the dictionary

  1. shroffage
  2. shroffed
  3. shroffing
  4. shroffs
  5. Shroftide
  6. shrog
  7. shrogs
  8. shroom
  9. shroomed
  10. shroomer
  11. shroomers

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