/ · 1894 Brewer’s · B · Black Leg
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A swindler, especially in cards and races. Also, one who works for less than trade-union wages; a non-union workman.
“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.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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