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blackleg

[ UK /blˈæklɛɡ/ ]
VERB
  1. take the place of work of someone on strike
NOUN
  1. someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike

How To Use blackleg In A Sentence

  • The insurgents refer contemptuously to the ISI as "blacklegs," for their supposedly darker skin. With Friends Like These…
  • Province looks for blacklegged ticks in south-central Manitoba after Lyme disease detected CTV BritishColumbiaHome
  • Go on strike by all means, but don't be surprised if some unknown blackleg wannabe steals your job.
  • At the beginning of the 20th century, the picket was mainly concerned with preventing blackleg labour from being taken in to replace strikers.
  • The marital crisis coincides with a miners' strike in which the men are forced to live off a pittance while blacklegs take over their jobs.
  • Hope it might have disclose out of the unconventional positives or it came into Amazon Top Cinco Libros Mas Leidos when they reprimand that the squirrel name that they were zone for is nonetheless blacklegged by. Wii-volution
  • Grassroots peasant activists burned crops, mined and barricaded roads, derailed trains, set fire to buildings, beat up strikebreakers and punctured the tyres of blackleg drivers.
  • There is no chemical cure and all growers can do is let the crop mature and hope the blackleg tubers will rot out.
  • I wadna 'like if my faither was a blackleg," observed Mysie Maitland to the girl next her. The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner
  • Such other clostridials include black disease, blackleg, braxy, bacterial redwater and tetanus.
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