The difference between Knobstick and Scab

Knobstick as a noun:

A stick with a rounded knob at the end.

Knobstick as a noun (slang):

One who refuses to join, or withdraws from, a trade union.

Scab as a noun:

An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.

Scab as a noun (colloquial, or, obsolete):

The scabies.

Scab as a noun:

The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.

Scab as a noun:

Any of several different diseases of potatoes producing pits and other damage on their surface, caused by streptomyces bacteria (but formerly believed to be caused by a fungus).

Scab as a noun:

Common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab (potato disease) caused by .

Scab as a noun (plant disease):

Any one of various more or less destructive fungal diseases that attack cultivated plants, forming dark-colored crustlike spots.

Scab as a noun (founding):

A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.

Scab as a noun:

A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.

Scab as a noun (offensive, slang):

A worker who acts against trade union policies, especially a strikebreaker.

Scab as a verb (intransitive):

To become covered by a scab or scabs.

Scab as a verb (intransitive):

To form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin.

Scab as a verb (transitive):

To remove part of a surface (from).

Scab as a verb (intransitive):

To act as a strikebreaker.

Scab as a verb (transitive, UK, Australia, NZ, informal):

To beg (for), to cadge or bum.