'Blackleg' definitions:
Definition of 'blackleg'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Blackleg'
From: GCIDE
- Blackleg \Black"leg`\, n.
- 1. A notorious gambler. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
- 2. A disease among calves and sheep, characterized by a settling of gelatinous matter in the legs, and sometimes in the neck. [Eng.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'blackleg'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Texas fever,
- two-timer