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Definition of Slaver

1. Noun. A person engaged in slave trade.

2. Verb. Let saliva drivel from the mouth. "The baby drooled"

3. Noun. Someone who holds slaves.

Definition of Slaver

1. n. A vessel engaged in the slave trade; a slave ship.

2. v. i. To suffer spittle, etc., to run from the mouth.

3. v. t. To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth; to defile with drivel; to slabber.

4. n. Saliva driveling from the mouth.

Definition of Slaver

1. Verb. To drool saliva from the mouth; to slobber. ¹

2. Verb. To fawn. ¹

3. Noun. a person engaged in the slave trade ¹

4. Noun. white slaver, who sells prostitutes into illegal 'sex slavery' ¹

5. Noun. (nautical) a ship used to transport slaves ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Slaver

1. to drool [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: drool

Lexicographical Neighbors of Slaver

slavedealing slavedom slavedoms slavegirl slavegirls slaveholder slaveholders slaveholding slaveholdings slaveless

slavelike slavemaster slavemasters slaveowner slaveowners slavered slaverer slaverers slaveries slavering

slaveringly slavers slavery slaves slaves away slaves to fashion slavey slaveys slavies

Literary usage of Slaver

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1882)
"¡afra, to slaver; cognate with Low G. labbern (above). Dor. slaver, sb., from Icel. ... sle/a, slaver. ар, sup, or lick up ; Low G. ..."

2. The Louisiana Historical Quarterly by Henry Plauché Dart, 1858- ed, John Dymond, d. 1922 ed, Louisiana Historical Society (1922)
""The slave ship was the Erie, and it was the last American slaver captured ... Eight of the slaver's crew were shipped on the Mohican, and the officers and ..."

3. The Story of Africa and Its Explorers by Robert Brown (1892)
"In case the cruiser ran the slaver hard, and a prison cell or the yard- arm ... A Spanish slaver, when captured, had made every preparation for blowing up ..."

4. The American Slave-trade: An Account of Its Origin, Growth and Suppression by John Randolph Spears (1900)
"... II OLD-TIME slaver CAPTAINS AND THEIR SHIPS David Lindsay as a Typical American slaver of the Eighteenth Century—With a Rotten Ship that Showed Daylight ..."

5. The American Slave-trade: An Account of Its Origin, Growth and Suppression by John Randolph Spears (1900)
"... II OLD-TIME slaver CAPTAINS AND THEIR SHIPS David Lindsay as a Typical American slaver of the Eighteenth Century—With a Rotten Ship that Showed Daylight ..."

6. Friends' Intelligencer by Friends Intelligencer Association (1858)
"CAPTURE OF AX AMERICAN slaver. 373 Negroes rescued. On Thursday last, the 16th inst. the inhabitants of St. Ann's Bay were thrown into a state of j ..."

7. History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880: Negroes as Slaves by George Washington Williams (1883)
"THEIR APPRECIATION OF CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION. ON the 28th of June, 1839, the " Amistad," a Spanish slaver (schooner), with Captain Ramon Ferrer in command, ..."

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