Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A slaver; a slave-ship.
Wiktionary
- n. a person involved in blackbirding
- n. a ship used for blackbirding
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. colloq. A slave ship; a slaver.
Examples
“blackbirder" -- "labour vessel," the wise it call -- nothing more will be needed to convince the initiated that I have moved in the "nine circles" of Polynesia.”
The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales
“I never saw "Flash Harry" again, for a few months later I left Samoa for the Caroline Group, and when I returned a year afterwards I was told that he had at last found the country too hot for him and had left the island in a German "blackbirder" bound to the Solomon Islands.”
“German "blackbirder" named the _Samoa_, though the captain and the crew swore they knew nothing of the matter.”
“After many years as supercargo, 'blackbirder' {*} and trader in the South”
“Let us now suppose that a "blackbirder" (obnoxious name to many recruiters) from Samoa, Fiji, or Queensland, has reached one of the New”
“Let me now describe an ordinary cruise of a "blackbirder" vessel -- an honest ship with an honest skipper and crew, and, above all, a straight”
“a "blackbirder" often presented a horrid spectacle -- the unfortunate”
“Bateman of the blackbirder NARI? he wondered; and had Captain”
“Duchess, a whacking big one-hundred-and fifty-ton schooner, a blackbirder.”
“Kellar, master of the blackbirder, the Eugénie, who rescued me.”
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