blackleg
Crosses the picket
Blackleg has several meanings united by the idea of something dark or undesirable.
In British English, a blackleg is a worker who refuses to join a strike or who takes a striker's job—a scab.
The word also names a bacterial disease that causes dark, gas-filled swellings in the legs of cattle and sheep, often fatal.
In gambling, a blackleg is a swindler or cheat: He was known as a blackleg at the card tables.
Dried blood crust
- replacementWhat takes another's place
- nonunionWithout labor organization
- lockoutEmployer-imposed work stoppage
- solidarityUnity among allies
boycott · protest · dispute · industrial · collective · bargaining · rat · ostracism
Act dishonestly to win
One who betrays allegiance
- treacheryDeliberate violation of trust
- backstabbingCovert betrayal of trust
- double-crossTreacherous deception of partner
- turncoatOne who betrays allegiance
sellout · perfidy · disloyalty · defection · renegade · deceiver · informer · snitch
Tissue death from bloodlessness
- necrosisLocalized cell death
- vaccinationAdministered immunity booster
- cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
- sheepWoolly farm animal
toxins · bacteria · fever · swelling · lameness · symptoms · carcass · contagious
Domesticated bovines kept commercially
- sheepWoolly farm animal
- vaccinationAdministered immunity booster
- herdGrazing animals together
- veterinaryRelating to animal healthcare
calves · lambs · pasture · bovine · ovine · ranching · agriculture · farming
scab
Dried blood crust
- replacementWhat takes another's place
- nonunionWithout labor organization
- lockoutEmployer-imposed work stoppage
solidarity · boycott · protest · dispute · industrial · collective · bargaining · rat · ostracism · injunction
cheat
Act dishonestly to win
hustler · fraud · crooked · scam · grifter · trickster · sharper
traitor
One who betrays allegiance
- treacheryDeliberate violation of trust
- backstabbingCovert betrayal of trust
- double-crossTreacherous deception of partner
turncoat · sellout · perfidy · disloyalty · defection · renegade · deceiver · informer · snitch · disloyal
gangrene
Tissue death from bloodlessness
- necrosisLocalized cell death
- vaccinationAdministered immunity booster
- cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
sheep · toxins · bacteria · fever · swelling · lameness · symptoms · carcass · contagious · outbreak
cattle
Domesticated bovines kept commercially
- sheepWoolly farm animal
- vaccinationAdministered immunity booster
- herdGrazing animals together
veterinary · calves · lambs · pasture · bovine · ovine · ranching · agriculture · farming · immunization
- animal diseasesrabies, distemper, tuberculosis, mange, anthrax
- bacterial infectionsanthrax, botulism, cholera, diphtheria, lockjaw
- labor strikeswalkouts, walkout, picket lines, strike action, coal strike
- Brassica Diseasesclubroot, downy mildew, hollow stem
- livestock careveterinary care, animal welfare, disease prevention, calving, deworming
- Livestock Diseasesbloat, hoof and mouth, anthrax, ketosis, brucellosis
blacklegstriker
One who hits targets
trade unionist · picket · union man · shop steward · brother
- Hollywood blacklistFilm industry political exclusion
- The BlacklistCrime drama series