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Scab   /skæb/   Listen
Scab

noun
1.
Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.  Synonyms: blackleg, rat, strikebreaker.
2.
The crustlike surface of a healing skin lesion.
verb
(past & past part. scabbed; pres. part. scabbing)
1.
Form a scab.
2.
Take the place of work of someone on strike.  Synonyms: blackleg, fink, rat.



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"Scab" Quotes from Famous Books



... dominance of the capitalist class. Already we can note manifestations of this new proletarian morality in that sense of class solidarity exhibited by the workers in the many acts of kindness and assistance of the employed to the unemployed, and more especially in the detestation in which the scab is held. ...
— Socialism: Positive and Negative • Robert Rives La Monte

... plague spread not on the skin ... the priest shall clean him ... but if the priest see that the scab spread on the skin, it is leprosy: he shall "unclean" him. (Septuagint, Levit. ...
— The Priest, The Woman And The Confessional • Father Chiniquy

... it was believed that in spite of poachers, Cougars, snow slides, and scab contracted from domestic sheep, the Bighorn in the Yellowstone Park had increased to considerably over two hundred, and the traveller can find them with fair certainty if he will devote a few days to the quest around Mt. Evarts, ...
— Wild Animals at Home • Ernest Thompson Seton

... Did ye hear that, now? For the love of Hivin! an' the union wages three sixty! Ye 're a dommed scab, an' it's meself that 'll wallup ye just for luck. It's crazy Oi am to do the job. What wud the loikes of ye work for Misther ...
— Beth Norvell - A Romance of the West • Randall Parrish

... sore which spreads and becomes leprosy. Everything which touches it catches it. Those who associate with hypocrites become hypocrites, and then scoundrels, slowly but surely by infection. That is the logic of the scab. It is not necessary to dress up in a black gown and to swallow God in public to make a perfect priestling, it is enough to rub against the priest's cap. Look at the sacristans, the beadles, the lackeys of the Bishop's palace, the hirers of ...
— The Grip of Desire • Hector France


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