Australian English Meaning of scab

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Definitions and Meaning of scab in English

Wordnet

scab (n)

someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike

the crustlike surface of a healing skin lesion

Wordnet

scab (v)

form a scab

take the place of work of someone on strike

Webster

scab (n.)

An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased part.

The itch in man; also, the scurvy.

The mange, esp. when it appears on sheep.

A disease of potatoes producing pits in their surface, caused by a minute fungus (Tiburcinia Scabies).

A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.

A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.

A nickname for a workman who engages for lower wages than are fixed by the trades unions; also, for one who takes the place of a workman on a strike.

Any one of various more or less destructive fungus diseases attacking cultivated plants, and usually forming dark-colored crustlike spots.

Webster

scab (v. i.)

To become covered with a scab; as, the wound scabbed over.

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