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scab: someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike fink: take the place of work of someone on strike
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(derog.) a person who fails or declines to take part in an industrial action. 2. Leptosphaeria maculans, a microbial fungus that infects canola and cattle; the disease is almost always fatal to cattle.
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A highly fatal disease of young cattle caused by one type of Clostridium bacteria. See Clostridial disease.
Ãâó: www.animalrangeextension.montana.edu/Articles/Beef...
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The term "blackleg" originated as an alternative to "scab" during the 1890s strikes. The Encyclopaedia Britannica (1959) noted:
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