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scab

(skăb)

1. A crust discharged from and covering a healing wound.

2. Scabies or mange in domestic animals or livestock, especially sheep.

a. Any of various plant diseases caused by fungi or bacteria and resulting in crustlike spots on fruit, leaves, or roots.

b. The spots caused by such a disease.

4. Slang A person regarded as contemptible.

a. A worker who refuses membership in a labor union.

b. An employee who works while others are on strike; a strikebreaker.

c. A person hired to replace a striking worker.

intr.v. scabbed, scab·bing, scabs

1. To become covered with scabs or a scab.

2. To work or take a job as a scab.

[Middle English, from Old Norse skabb.]

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scab

(skæb)

1. (Pathology) the dried crusty surface of a healing skin wound or sore

2. (Veterinary Science) a contagious disease of sheep, a form of mange, caused by a mite (Psoroptes communis)

3. (Plant Pathology) a fungal disease of plants characterized by crusty spots on the fruits, leaves, etc

4. (Industrial Relations & HR Terms) derogatory

a. Also called: blackleg a person who refuses to support a trade union's actions, esp one who replaces a worker who is on strike

b. (as modifier): scab labour.

5. a despicable person

vb (intr) , scabs, scabbing or scabbed

6. (Pathology) to become covered with a scab

7. (of a road surface) to become loose so that potholes develop

8. (Industrial Relations & HR Terms) to replace a striking worker

[Old English sceabb; related to Old Norse skabb, Latin scabiēs, Middle Low German schabbe scoundrel, German schäbig shabby]

ˈscabˌlike adj

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scab

(skæb)

n., v. scabbed, scab•bing. n.

1. the incrustation that forms over a sore or wound during healing.

2. any mangy skin disease in animals, esp. sheep.

a. a fungal or bacterial disease of plants characterized by crustlike lesions on the affected parts.

b. one such lesion.

4. a worker who refuses to join a labor union or to participate in a union strike, who takes a striking worker's place on the job, or the like.

5. Slang. a rascal or scoundrel.

v.i.

6. to become covered with a scab.

7. to act or work as a scab.

[1200–50; Middle English < Old Norse skabb scab, itch]

scab

- First pertained to any skin disease in which pustules or scales were formed, and is from Old Norse skabbr, "crust over a wound."

scab

Past participle: scabbed
Gerund: scabbing

Imperative
scab
scab

Present
I scab
you scab
he/she/it scabs
we scab
you scab
they scab

Preterite
I scabbed
you scabbed
he/she/it scabbed
we scabbed
you scabbed
they scabbed

Present Continuous
I am scabbing
you are scabbing
he/she/it is scabbing
we are scabbing
you are scabbing
they are scabbing

Present Perfect
I have scabbed
you have scabbed
he/she/it has scabbed
we have scabbed
you have scabbed
they have scabbed

Past Continuous
I was scabbing
you were scabbing
he/she/it was scabbing
we were scabbing
you were scabbing
they were scabbing

Past Perfect
I had scabbed
you had scabbed
he/she/it had scabbed
we had scabbed
you had scabbed
they had scabbed

Future
I will scab
you will scab
he/she/it will scab
we will scab
you will scab
they will scab

Future Perfect
I will have scabbed
you will have scabbed
he/she/it will have scabbed
we will have scabbed
you will have scabbed
they will have scabbed

Future Continuous
I will be scabbing
you will be scabbing
he/she/it will be scabbing
we will be scabbing
you will be scabbing
they will be scabbing

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been scabbing
you have been scabbing
he/she/it has been scabbing
we have been scabbing
you have been scabbing
they have been scabbing

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been scabbing
you will have been scabbing
he/she/it will have been scabbing
we will have been scabbing
you will have been scabbing
they will have been scabbing

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been scabbing
you had been scabbing
he/she/it had been scabbing
we had been scabbing
you had been scabbing
they had been scabbing

Conditional
I would scab
you would scab
he/she/it would scab
we would scab
you would scab
they would scab

Past Conditional
I would have scabbed
you would have scabbed
he/she/it would have scabbed
we would have scabbed
you would have scabbed
they would have scabbed

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Noun	1.	scab - someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike blackleg, strikebreaker, rat worker - a person who works at a specific occupation; "he is a good worker"
	2.	scab - the crustlike surface of a healing skin lesion cutis, skin, tegument - a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch; "your skin is the largest organ of your body" solid body substance - the solid parts of the body eschar - a dry scab formed on the skin following a burn or cauterization of the skin
Verb	1.	scab - form a scab; "the wounds will eventually scab" heal - get healthy again; "The wound is healing slowly"
	2.	scab - take the place of work of someone on strike blackleg, fink, rat do work, work - be employed; "Is your husband working again?"; "My wife never worked"; "Do you want to work after the age of 60?"; "She never did any work because she inherited a lot of money"; "She works as a waitress to put herself through college"

Translations

جَرَب الماشِيَهقِشْرَة الجُرْح

prašivinastávkokazstrup

sårskorpeskurvstrejkebrydersvampesygdom

Schorf Streikbrecher Kruste Räude

arpeutuaperunarupipummatarikkurirupi

croûte gale briseur briseur de grève

rühsztrájktörõvar

hrúðurhrúîurhúîsjúkdómur í plöntum/dÿrumverkfallsbrjótur

crosta crumiro crumira

niežainušašęsrauplėsšašasstreiklaužys

kašķiskraupiskrevelestreiklauzis

korst

sårskorpe skabb skurv streikebryter

crosta

струп штрейкбрехер

chrastaprašivinaštrajkokaz

grev kırıcıhastalık kabukkoyun uyuzuyara kabuğu

拒不参加罢工的工人斑点病痂

scab

[skæb] N

1. (Med) → costra f

2. (Vet) → roña f

3. (= strikebreaker) → esquirol mf, rompehuelgas mf inv

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scab

[ˈskæb] n

(= on body) → croûte f

(= strikebreaker) → jaune m

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scab

(on cut) → Schorf m, → Grind m

(= scabies) → Krätze f

(inf: = strikebreaker) → Streikbrecher(in) m(f); scab labour (Brit) or labor (US) → Streikbrecher pl

(inf) → den Streik brechen

(wound) to scab over → Schorf bilden

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scab

[skæb] n

a. (Med) → crosta

b. (fam, pej) (strikebreaker) → crumiro/a

scab

(skӕb) noun

1. a crust formed over a sore or wound.

2. any of several diseases of animals or plants.

3. a workman who refuses to join a strike.

ˈscabby adjective

scab

n. costra, escara.

scab

n costra

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So thoroughly was Bill Totts himself, so thoroughly a workman, a genuine denizen of South of the Slot, that he was as class- conscious as the average of his kind, and his hatred for a scab even exceeded that of the average loyal union man.

A violent accession of noise proclaimed that the mob had broken through and was dragging a scab from a waggon.

The scabs were torn from their seats, the traces of the horses cut, and the frightened animals put in flight.

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A refusal of cooks and waiters to serve scab teamsters or teamsters' employers brought out the cooks and waiters.

The powerful fighting organization known as the Pacific Slope Seaman's Union refused to work vessels the cargoes of which were to be handled by scab longshoremen and freight-handlers.

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A gipsy encampment to-day is little more than a moving slum, a scab of squalor on the fair face of the countryside.

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Revenge is in thy soul: wherever thou bitest, there ariseth black scab; with revenge, thy poison maketh the soul giddy!

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The man started after it, and then, as a cry of "Scab!" was raised and a dozen people came running out of saloons and doorways, a second man's heart failed him and he followed.

There was quite a different tone in Packingtown after this--the place was a seething caldron of passion, and the "scab" who ventured into it fared badly.

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Peter Donnelly, the scab foreman at the Sierra Mills whom I encountered while investigating the case of Jackson, was a surprise to all of us.

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Nor could he have guessed that the particular five dollars that belonged to him had been appropriated by the business manager for the painting of his house in Alameda, which painting he performed himself, on week-day afternoons, because he could not afford to pay union wages and because the first scab he had employed had had a ladder jerked out from under him and been sent to the hospital with a broken collar-bone.

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Why wasn't there work for all?--Only that morning, and she shuddered with the recollection, she had seen two scabs, on their way to work, beaten up by the strikers, by men she knew by sight, and some by name, who lived in the neighhorhood.