| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Black Leg | Literature | 1: A swindler, especially in cards and races. Also, one who works for less than trade-union wages; a non-union workman. 2: "Pledging the strikers not to return to work so long as a single Black-leg was retained in the service."- Nineteenth Century, February, 1891, p. 243. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Black leg of potatoes | Biology & Biotechnology | Serious bacterial disease that affects foliage and tubers and causes soft black decay at the stem end of the latter; transmitted mechanically by contaminated tools and through wounds. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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