• Russian: чёрная но́жка (čjórnaja nóžka)

See: scab

Adjective

1. Relating to a scab worker.

   The blackleg workers entered under cover of darkness.

Translations

• Russian: штрейкбре́херский (štrejkbréherskij)

The word blackleg has more than one meaning:-

• An older slang term for a strikebreaker, as in Blackleg Miner; scab is the word used today.
• A slang term for a person who cheats at cards, a cardsharp.
• Various animal and plant diseases, including:-
  • blackleg - a disease that affects sheep and cattle. Blackleg vaccine gives immunity against it.
  • A disease of the rapeseed plant.
  • A disease of brassica plants, caused by the fungus Leptosphaeria maculans
  • A disease of potatoes: see List of potato diseases
  • A disease of cultivated geraniums, caused by species of the fungus Pythium
• The (defunct) UK metal music outfit Matter released an album entitled Blackleg in early 2002.
• In the mid-19th century in the USA, the human disease scurvy
• See Opelousas, Louisiana#History
• "Operation Blackleg" was a codename for the recovery of security-sensitive items from the wreck of HMS Coventry after the Falklands War. http://www.mcdoa.org.uk/News.htm

Texas fever, anthrax, aphthous fever, bighead, black quarter, blackwater, blind staggers, bloody flux, broken wind, cattle plague, charbon, cheat, cheater, chiseler, cozener, crook, defrauder, diddler, distemper, fink, flimflam man, flimflammer, foot-and-mouth disease, gapes, glanders, gyp artist, gypper, heaves, hog cholera, hoof-and-mouth disease, hydrophobia, juggler, liver rot, loco, loco disease, locoism, mad staggers, malignant catarrh, malignant catarrhal fever, malignant pustule, mange, megrims, milzbrand, paratuberculosis, pip, pseudotuberculosis, quarter evil, rabies, rat, rinderpest, rot, scab, scabies, sheep rot, splenic fever, staggers, strikebreaker, stringhalt, swindler, swine dysentery, two-timer