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Word: Blackleg
Speech Type: Verb
ˈblaklɛɡ
continue working when one's fellow workers are on strike.
Short Definition:continue working when one's fellow workers are on strike
Word: Blackleg
Speech Type: Noun
early 18th century (in the sense ‘infectious disease of cattle and sheep’): from black + leg. The sense ‘strike-breaker’ dates from the mid 19th century; it may derive from an earlier sense ‘swindler, cheat’, with possible comparison to a crow or rook, black birds regarded as having thieving habits
ˈblaklɛɡ
a person who continues working when fellow workers are on strike; a strike-breaker
Short Definition:person who continues working when fellow workers are on strike
Examples:- the blacklegs who had arrived by rail were harassed by crowds of workers
- blackleg labour
an acute infectious bacterial disease of cattle and sheep, causing necrosis in one or more legs.
Short Definition:acute infectious bacterial disease of cattle and sheep
any of a number of plant diseases in which part of the stem blackens and decays.
Short Definition:bacterial disease of potatoes
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