Blackleg vs Cheat - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) Fatal cattle disease caused by the soil-borne bacteria Clostridium chauvoei ; symptomatic anthrax
(countable) A person who takes the place of striking workers. A scab.
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, title= (countable) A person who cheats in a game, a cheater.
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*:I had never defrauded a man of a farthing, nor called him knave behind his back. But now the last rag that covered my nakedness had been torn from me. I was branded a blackleg , card-sharper, and murderer.
(colloquial) A notorious gambler.
Relating to a scab worker.
To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.
To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.
To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely.
To deceive; to fool; to trick.
* Shakespeare
To beguile.
* Washington Irving
Someone who cheats (informal: cheater).
An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.
* Dryden
The weed cheatgrass.
A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a computer game, often by entering a cheat code.
As nouns the difference between blackleg and cheat
is that blackleg is (uncountable) fatal cattle disease caused by the soil-borne bacteria clostridium chauvoei ; symptomatic anthrax while cheat is someone who cheats (informal: cheater).As an adjective blackleg
is relating to a scab worker.As a verb cheat is
to violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.blackleg
English
Noun
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.}}
Synonyms
*(strikebreaker) scalieDerived terms
* blackleggingExternal links
*(projectlink) *(projectlink)Adjective
(-)- The blackleg workers entered under cover of darkness.
cheat
English
Verb
(en verb)- My brother flunked biology because he cheated on his mid-term.
- My husband cheated on me with his secretary.
- He cheated death when his car collided with a moving train.
- I feel as if I've cheated fate.
- My ex-wife cheated me out of $40,000.
- He cheated his way into office.
- I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of this island.
- (Sir Walter Scott)
- to cheat winter of its dreariness
Synonyms
* belirt * blench * break the rules * lirtNoun
(en noun)- When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat .