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Home Dictionary Name: badger leggedBadger legged
Having legs of unequal length as the badger was thought to have...
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 c. 24 abolished the offence of badgering, and repealed the statutes passed in relation to it, as being pernicious and in restraint of trade....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...
Legged
Having such or so many legs used in composition as a long legged man a two legged animal...
Duck legged
Having short legs like a waddling duck short legged...
Leg of mutton
Having the general shape or outline of a leg of mutton as a leg of mutton or shoulder of mutton sail...
Black-leg
Black-leg. To call a man a 'black-leg' is not actionable unless it can be shown that the word was understood by the bystanders to mean 'a cheating gambler liable to be prosecuted as such', Barnett v. Allen, (1858) 3 H&N 376. The term is applied to a man who refuses to join, or follow the ruling of, a Trades Union in times of disputes between employer and employee....
leg
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