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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To slobber; drool.
  2. v. To behave in an obsequious manner; fawn. See Synonyms at fawn1.
  3. n. Saliva drooling from the mouth.
  4. n. Senseless and effusive talk; drivel.
  5. n. One, such as a person or ship, that is engaged in the trafficking of slaves.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To suffer the saliva to dribble from the mouth; drivel; slabber.
  2. To besmear or defile with slaver or saliva; beslabber.
  3. n. Saliva driveling from the mouth; drivel.
  4. n. A ship or vessel engaged in the slave-trade.
  5. n. A person engaged in the slave-trade; a slave-hunter; a slave-dealer.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To drool saliva from the mouth; to slobber.
  2. v. To fawn.
  3. n. saliva running from the mouth; drool
  4. n. a person engaged in the slave trade
  5. n. white slaver, who sells prostitutes into illegal 'sex slavery'
  6. n. nautical a ship used to transport slaves

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A vessel engaged in the slave trade; a slave ship.
  2. n. A person engaged in the purchase and sale of slaves; a slave merchant, or slave trader.
  3. v. To suffer spittle, etc., to run from the mouth.
  4. v. To be besmeared with saliva.
  5. v. To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth; to defile with drivel; to slabber.
  6. n. Saliva driveling from the mouth.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. someone who holds slaves
  2. n. a person engaged in slave trade
  3. v. let saliva drivel from the mouth

Etymologies

  1. From the verb slave 'enslave, traffic in slaves' (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English slaveren, probably from Old Norse slafra. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “I realize that that's not what the author chose to focus on, but my God, choosing to base an identity politics ( "tragi") comedy on a slaver is about as misguided as the warm-family-tragicomedy-in-Nazi-death-camp peesashit "Life is Beautiful" was.”

    Reading Update

  • “However, the slaver is impressed by his spirit and decides he shall be trained as a Tunnel Warrior for the upcoming war with the wombat-riding Warriors of Doom.”

    Getting momentum into Chapter 1

  • “The slaver is a ghost ship sailing on the edges of modern consciousness," Mr. Rediker writes.”

    The Wall Street Journal: The Price of Human Cargo

  • “The slaver was a darker silhouette against the night sky.”

    Ship Of Magic

  • “So I hope that we can increasingly stop talking about slaver, which is, frankly, largely irrelevant to most of us here today, and talk about how we can overcome our history, both positive and negative, in a fashion that builds a brighter future for Americans and Africans alike.”

    Press Briefing In Kampala Uganda

  • “Singleton recalled a slaver, the crew of which had been brawling at the”

    Richard Carvel — Complete

  • “Singleton recalled a slaver, the crew of which had been brawling at the Ship tavern a few nights before.”

    Richard Carvel

  • “Shaws, adopted the boy and started him upon a slaver, that is a ship which does trade in negro slaves, my dear -- a pretty trade.”

    The Light of Scarthey

  • “In 1648 a ship [hereinafter mentioned by Hunter] named the MAY-FLOWER was engaged in the slave trade, and the ill-informed as well as the ill-disposed have sometimes sneeringly alleged that this was our historic ship; but it is ascertained that the slaver was a vessel of three hundred and fifty tons, -- nearly twice the size of our ship of happy memory.”

    The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete

  • “The ship that bore them thither was no longer called a slaver, and her cargo were not slaves.”

    Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville

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synonyms (3)

Words with the same meaning

  1. slabber
  1. slobber
  1. nonsense

hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. holder
  1. salivate

same context (4)

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  1. privateer
  1. man-of-war
  1. brig
  1. horse-thief

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. beslaver
  2. drivel
  1. dribble
  2. blackbirder
  1. slabber
  2. slaver
  1. slave ship
  2. slave-trader
  1. spawl
  2. drool
  1. slaveringly
  2. slavery
  1. slobber

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