Scab \Scab\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Scabbed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Scabbing}.] 1. To become covered with a scab; as, the wound scabbed over.
2. to take the place of a striking worker. [PJC]
Scab \Scab\ (sk[a^]b), n. [OE. scab, scabbe, shabbe; cf. AS. sc[ae]b, sceabb, scebb, Dan. & Sw. skab, and also L. scabies, fr. scabere to scratch, akin to E. shave. See {Shave}, and cf. {Shab}, {Shabby}.] 1. An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased part.
2. The itch in man; also, the scurvy. [Colloq. or Obs.]
3. The mange, esp. when it appears on sheep. --Chaucer.
4. A disease of potatoes producing pits in their surface, caused by a minute fungus ({Tiburcinia Scabies}).
5. (Founding) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
6. A mean, dirty, paltry fellow. [Low] --Shak.
7. 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. [Cant]
8. (Bot.) Any one of various more or less destructive fungus diseases attacking cultivated plants, and usually forming dark-colored crustlike spots. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
"Since I was a writer first, I'm not going to scab during the strike," Cannell said.
More than 2,500 red-shirted strikers defied riot police, lobbed rocks, bottles and cinderblocks at their employer's fenced Miami headquarters and shredded a "scab worker" effigy.
The apples are resistant to scab and, in varying degrees, fire blight, apple cedar rust and powdery mildew _ among the most prevalent diseases in the industry, and some are even resistant to bugs.
"They were claiming they would attempt to produce with scab writers," she said. "We don't think that will be any significant help to them.
Workers heading back to union headquarters blocked traffic for nearly 10 minutes as an effigy of a "scab worker" was torn apart.
Rod and Vlasta would like to find time to travel but the roof of their house needs replacing and apple scab is an ever-present menace.
And he replied: A scab is a scab.
And he replied: A scab is a scab.
Their teams are 0-2 in the scab league.
"Don't you want to see my ear?" he asked, stalling. "The scab fell off." The nurse lifted the gauze.
Mr. Steinbrenner also intimated that the umpire's allegedly bad judgments had something to do with the Yankee owner calling him a "scab" because he continued to work during a 1979 umpires' strike.