Crossword-Solution: BLACKLEG
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Blackleg | n. | A notorious gambler. |
| Blackleg | n. | A disease among calves and sheep, characterized by a settling of gelatinous matter in the legs, and sometimes in the neck. |
We have 12 clues for the answer “BLACKLEG”
| Clue | Answers |
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| TURF swindler | 1 answer |
| person who continues to work during a strike | 1 answer |
| Strike-breaker (derogatory) – disease of cattle and sheep | 1 answer |
| One refusing to strike | 1 answer |
| Strike breaker | 2 answers |
| strike-breaker | 5 answers |
| Scab | 13 answers |
| TROUBLESOME person | 33 answers |
| Injure | 48 answers |
| Betray | 48 answers |
| Swindler | 65 answers |
| dissident | 83 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAEET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BLACKLEG (5)
Among the passengers there was an American named Condon, a noted blackleg and crook who was “wanted” in a half dozen of the larger cities of the United States.
Cyrus Blackleg Ruggles.” Annixter stormed out of the room, slamming the door behind him, and Ruggles, trembling with anger, turned to his desk and to the blotting pad written all over with the words LANDS, TWENTY DOLLARS, TWO AND A HALF, OPTION, and, over and over again, with great swelling curves and flourishes, RAILROAD, RAILROAD, RAILROAD.
The pickpocket, the blackleg, and the charlatan make especial use of their dexterity of hand, their subtlety of mind, the magic power of their eloquence, and their great fertility of invention.
And for three months, while the big strike of the engineers was in progress, Holroyd, who was a blackleg, and Azuma-zi, who was a mere black, were never out of the stir and eddy of it, but slept and fed in the little wooden shanty between the shed and the gates.
But among the seducing attractions of Baden-Baden, and of all German bathing-places, the Rouge-et-noir and Roulette-table hold a melancholy pre-eminence,--being at once a shameful source of revenue to the prince,--a rallying point for the gay, the beautiful, the professional blackleg, the incognito duke or king,--and a vortex in which the student, the merchant, and the subaltern officer are, in the course of the season, often hopelessly and irrevocably ingulfed.
Quotes with BLACKLEG (1)
If you can find no way of getting the Notes duplicated, why not try the Ministry of Cultural Affairs, who might be sympathetic (provided they do not actually read them)? I must, however, confess to a rooted dislike — perhaps you share it? — of seeking the help of Official (particularly Government) Bodies. Whenever anyone addresses me in his official capacity, I am at once filled with a desire to attack the Official Body he represents. I have every sympathy with the Irishman w…