slaver

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A moment later the look-out himself, having descended the tree, came hurrying along to make his report Well, Edwards," I exclaimed, as the man came bustling up to me, and saluted, "I see you have made the signal that a slaver is approaching.

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  1. intransitive verb To slobber; drool.
  2. intransitive verb To behave in an obsequious manner; fawn. See Synonyms at fawn1.
  3. noun Saliva drooling from the mouth.

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  • Your fell career as a slaver is through When you're all tied up and about to be cruelly ravished? —  Geis of the Gargoyle
  • Though I had never seen a slaver, the stranger came exactly up to my idea of what a slaver was like. —  My First Cruise and Other stories
  • [_Bozales_--"sacks of charcoal," I remarked in Spanish slaver-slang.] —  Memoirs
  • I heard of him once as a slaver, and a year ago I learned of his having been seen on this coast. —  Adrift in the Ice-Fields
  • "By the cut of his sails he looks like a slaver, and, from his size, he is not likely to be one to knock under to any man-of-war's boats he might fall in with But suppose he should be a pirate," observed some one A pirate! —  My First Voyage to Southern Seas
 

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slaver:   slavered
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  1. Middle English slaveren, probably from Old Norse slafra.

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  1. from Middle English slaveren, from Icelandic slafra, slaver, = Low German slabbern, slaver, slabber: see slabber.
  2. from Middle English slaver, slavyr, from Icelandic slafr, slaver: see slaver, v. Cf. slabber, n.
  3. from slave + -er.
 

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