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Slaver
Definitions
- 1 Saliva running from the mouth; drool. uncountable
"Of all mad Creatures, if the Learn'd are right, / It is the Slaver kills, and not the Bite."
- 2 A person engaged in the slave trade; a person who buys, sells, transports, or owns slaves.
"The continued fight between abolitionists and slavers in Missouri caused slave owners to refuge slaves to the Confederate interior. But some Union forces that made salients into rebel territory insisted that the slaves were “contraband” […]"
- 3 someone who holds slaves wordnet
- 4 A person engaged in the slave trade; a person who buys, sells, transports, or owns slaves.; A white slaver; a person who sells prostitutes into sexual slavery.
- 5 a person engaged in slave trade wordnet
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- 6 A ship used to transport slaves.
"The Gulnare was a fast sailer, built for a slaver originally[.]"
- 1 To drool saliva from the mouth; to slobber. intransitive
- 2 let saliva drivel from the mouth wordnet
- 3 To fawn. intransitive
- 4 To be drooled out of someone’s mouth. intransitive
"A fearsome sight it was to behold how he swelled in his wrath, and his eyes blazed like disastrous stars at midnight, and being wood with anger he gnashed his teeth till the froth stood at his lips and slavered down his chin."
- 5 To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth. transitive
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- 6 To be besmeared with saliva.
"should I, damn'd then, / Slaver with lips as common as the stairs / That mount the Capitol"
Etymology
From Middle English slaveren, from Old Norse slafra (“to slaver”), probably imitative. Doublet of slabber.
From Middle English slaveren, from Old Norse slafra (“to slaver”), probably imitative. Doublet of slabber.
From slave (“enslave, traffic in slaves”) + -er.
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