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Meanings of scab in anglès
Synonyms
Examples for "rat"
Examples for "rat"
1
It is bad enough in the open-butlike a rat-ina trap.
2
A swamper from one of the worst rat holes in the port.
3
Morris water maze tests were conducted for evaluating the rat's learning-memory ability.
4
Cuba's rat-like little earth hutia has not been seen in 40 years.
5
The cat and the rat have been enemies since the world began.
1
He seems to be a complete blackleg, in spite of his baronetcy.
2
No doubt you've set me down as a cad and a blackleg.
3
But he disliked Robert bitterly, as a species of bourgeois blackleg.
4
It's bad enough; but I'm not such a blackleg as Draven makes out-
5
You are novices at gambling; I am an old blackleg.
1
There is nothing more despicable than the name of strikebreaker.
2
Joe Robbins, known as an Englishman or a strikebreaker, fought with everyone & died of thirst in the scrub.
3
Twice that number and more picketed or searched for strikebreakers.
4
The girl, told off by Sam, stood on the sidewalk passing out pamphlets to the strikebreakers.
5
The picket at the shirtwaist factory reported that three more of the strikebreakers had left the plant.
Usage of scab in anglès
1
Streptomyces scabiei causes common scab, an economically important disease of potato tubers.
2
I just wanted to look at the scale scab, I told myself.
3
The scab is by far the most formidable weapon of the three.
4
The pecan scab is the most typical fungus parasite of the pecan.
5
Her father calls her a scab and bolts the door behind her.
6
Once she noticed a fresh circular scab up in the lyrinx's armpit.
7
This one had seeped and the wrappings had stuck to the scab.
8
Still, should the scab of the sheep cause the shepherd to recoil?
9
Brimstone giggled to himself and scratched a scab on his balding pate.
10
The city encrusted a half-moon bay like a scab around a sore.
11
I'll be even with ye yet, my man-youand that red-headed scab.
12
Maybe Christmas. Back to the scab, the perimeter now smeared with blood.
13
Don't you know it can be seen, you scab, through the roof?
14
She had a 'Don't be a scab' ribbon on-that'sall she done!
15
They held the reins bloody red, fingernails outlined in dried black scab.
16
Compared with that fat black scab, the scales were not so ugly.
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Scab across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common