Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One connected with the furnishing of slaves by assiento. Bancroft.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A shareholder of the Assiento company; one of the parties to the Assiento contract.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun historical A shareholder of the Assiento company involved in the slave trade.
  • noun historical One of the parties to the Assiento contract.

Etymologies

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Compare French assientiste, Spanish asentista.

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