Definition of "scabbed" []

• Present participle of scab. (verb)

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• "I used to be a postman but left to find a better job as normal people do i also "scabbed" and crossed the pathetic picket line....."
• "He went to work for a Mr. Bedford, and presently got a hint that if he did not join the association of journeymen shoemakers he was liable to be "scabbed," which meant that men would not work in the same shop, nor board or lodge in the same house, nor would they work at all for the same employer."
• "This is evidenced in cases where gems have been found encrusted on their matrix, which latter was being slowly transformed to the character of the jewel encrusted, or "scabbed" on it."