German: nickname for a tall, thin person, from Middle High
German schrage ‘rack’, ‘stand’, or from the same word in Middle
Low German meaning ‘scrawny’.German: from Middle High
German, Middle Low German schrage ‘slanting’, by extension used
to refer to a market stall with crossed legs, hence an occupational
name for a carpenter or a stallholder.Jewish
(Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish personal name Shrage, meaning
‘candle’ in Aramaic.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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