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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
blackleg
noun
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▪ Across the road in a secure compound are the buildings that house the mostly out-of-state blacklegs.
▪ Picketing gave way to marches through factories, when workers would chase blacklegs and occasionally kidnap managers.
▪ The blackleg buses disappeared off the streets and other vehicles which had been beginning to return to the roads.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blackleg

Blackleg \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.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
blackleg

"swindler," especially in equestrian events, 1771, from black (adj.) + leg (n.), but the exact signification is uncertain.

Wiktionary
blackleg
  1. Relating to a scab worker. n. 1 (context uncountable English) fatal cattle disease caused by the soil-borne bacteria (taxlink Clostridium chauvoei species noshow=1); symptomatic anthrax 2 (context countable English) A person who takes the place of striking workers. A sca

WordNet
blackleg
  1. n. someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike [syn: scab, strikebreaker, rat]

  2. v. take the place of work of someone on strike [syn: scab, rat]

  3. [also: blacklegging, blacklegged]

Wikipedia
Blackleg

Blackleg or black-legged may refer to:

Blackleg (disease)
''"Blackleg" is also a plant disease caused by Pectobacterium carotovorum (= Erwinia carotovora).''

Blackleg, black quarter, quarter evil, or quarter ill is an infectious bacterial disease most commonly caused by Clostridium chauvoei, a Gram-positive bacterial species. It is seen in livestock all over the world, usually affecting cattle, sheep, and goats. It has been seen occasionally in farmed bison and deer. The acute nature of the disease makes successful treatment difficult, but an effective vaccine is available to provide animals with protective immunity.

Blackleg (potatoes)

Blackleg is a plant disease of potato caused by pectolytic bacteria that can result in stunting, wilting, chlorosis of leaves, necrosis of several tissues, a decline in yield, and at times the death of the potato plant. The term “blackleg” originates from the typical blackening and decay of the lower stem portion, or “leg", of the plant.

Blackleg in potatoes is most commonly caused by Pectobacterium atrosepticum (older synonym: Erwinia carotovora subsp. astroseptica), a gram-negative, nonsporulating, facultative anaerobe that is also associated with soft rot of potatoes. While other bacterial species such as Pectobacterium carotovorum and Dickeya dadantii can exhibit symptoms similar to blackleg of potato, these pathogens exhibit broader host ranges, are present in different climates, and typically are more associated with soft rot diseases.

Usage examples of "blackleg".

He had scarcely uttered those words when my friend, going up to him, told him that a dancer was certainly as good as a blackleg, and gave him a violent bow with the flat of his sword on the face.

I wish to so alter it as to put a premium on intelligence and character, and close the jury box against idiots, blacklegs, and people who do not read newspapers.

I was introduced to the blacklegs in your bar-room, and by a scamp who was a habitual lounger here.

He consorted much with blacklegs and such-like because blacklegs were to his taste.

I say again that, if the ring has fallen low, it is not in the main the fault of the men who have done the fighting, but it lies at the door of the vile crew of ring-side parasites and ruffians, who are as far below the honest pugilist as the welsher and the blackleg are below the noble racehorse which serves them as a pretext for their villainies.

States, and means rather a political blackleg than a political patriot.

Rudolf, meet Saint Montague Hayward, chairman of the Royal Commission for Investigating the Incidence of Psittacosis among Dromedaries, and managing editor of The Blunt Instrument, canonized this very day for assassinating a reader who thought a blackleg was something to do with varicose veins.

I could see that blacklegged horse cropping grass out there, but I couldn't see his legs at all, only his body, looking like one of those white rocks.