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Badger

Badger, means any number of the species Meles meles, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 2, 4th Edn., Para 352, p. 163.Badger [fr. baggage, Fr., a bundle, or fr. bladier, Fr., a corn-dealer, Wedgw.], a person who buys corn or victuals in one place, and carries them to another to sell and make profit by them. 5 Eliz. C. 12 empowered magistrates to license badgers for one year, upon their entering into certain recognizances. 7 & 8 Vict. c. 24 abolished the offence of badgering, and repealed the statutes passed in relation to it, as being pernicious and in restraint of trade....


Badger sett

Badger sett, connotes a system of tunnels and chambers, constructed and currently used by a badger or badgers and the entrance holes to those tunnels and chambers, but does not include the area upto and including the surface area above that system, Director of Public Prosecutions v. Green, (2001) 1 WLR 805 (QB).Means any structure of place which displays signs indicating current use by a badger, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 2, 4th Edn., Para 163....


Badgerer

One who badgers...


Badgering

The act of one who badgers...


Badger legged

Having legs of unequal length as the badger was thought to have...


Badger

An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food a hawker a huckster formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another...


Badger game

The method of blackmailing by decoying a person into a compromising situation and extorting money by threats of exposure...


Badger State

Wisconsin a nickname...


Bawsin

A badger...


Brock

A badger...


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