blackleg

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. (uncountable) A fatal cattle disease caused by the soil-borne bacterium Clostridium chauvoei; symptomatic anthrax.
2. (uncountable) A disease of potato crops caused by pectolytic bacteria, characterized by blackening and decay of the lower stem portion.
3. (uncountable) A disease of brassicas caused by the fungus Leptosphaeria maculans
4. (countable) A person who cheats in a game; a cheater, especially a dishonest bookmaker.
5. (countable) A person who takes the place of striking workers.

Verb

To continue working whilst fellow workers strike.

Sinónimos

scab

strikebreaker

rat

🐀

fink

quarter ill

symptomatic anthrax

cheat

swindler

quarter evil

knave

leg

🦵

ratter

sharper

violator

strike-breaker

rauschbrand

bloody murrain

beguiler

black quarter

bilk

bilker

black

crook

fraud

hoodwinker

imposture

jockey

Traducións

charbon symptomatique

απεργοσπάστης

jaune

απατεώνας

esquirol

crumiro

fura-greve

Streikbrecher

rat

🐀

Betrüger

Rauschbrand

carbonchio sintomatico

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Etimoloxía (Inglés)

From black + leg.