About The Word Blackleg
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Blackleg
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What's The Definition Of Blackleg?
[n] someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
[v] take the place of work of someone on strike Synonyms | Synonyms for Blackleg: rat | rat | scab | scab | strikebreaker Related Terms | Find terms related to Blackleg: anthrax | aphthous fever | bighead | black quarter | blackwater | blind staggers | bloody flux | broken wind | cattle plague | charbon | cheat | cheater | chiseler | cozener | crook | defrauder | diddler | distemper | fink | flimflam man | flimflammer | foot-and-mouth disease | gapes | glanders | gyp artist | gypper | heaves | hog cholera | hoof-and-mouth disease | hydrophobia | juggler | liver rot | loco | loco disease | locoism | mad staggers | malignant catarrh | malignant catarrhal fever | malignant pustule | mange | megrims | milzbrand | paratuberculosis | pip | pseudotuberculosis | quarter evil | rabies | rat | rinderpest | rot | scab | scabies | sheep rot | splenic fever | staggers | strikebreaker | stringhalt | swindler | swine dysentery | Texas fever | two-timer See Also | do work | work | worker Blackleg In Webster's Dictionary \Black"leg`\, n.
1. A notorious gambler. [Colloq.]
2. A disease among calves and sheep, characterized by a
settling of gelatinous matter in the legs, and sometimes
in the neck. [Eng.]
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