About The Word Blackleg

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Blackleg

Blackleg Meaning & Definition
Blackleg Definition And Meaning

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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