SLAVER

slaveholder, slave owner, slaver

(noun) someone who holds slaves

slaver, slave dealer, slave trader

(noun) a person engaged in slave trade

drivel, drool, slabber, slaver, slobber, dribble

(verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth; “The baby drooled”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Verb

slaver (third-person singular simple present slavers, present participle slavering, simple past and past participle slavered)

(intransitive) To drool saliva from the mouth; to slobber.

(intransitive) To fawn.

(transitive) To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth.

To be besmeared with saliva.

Synonyms

• (emit saliva): drool, slobber

Noun

slaver (uncountable)

Saliva running from the mouth; drool.

Etymology 2

Noun

slaver (plural slavers)

A person engaged in the slave trade.

A white slaver, who sells prostitutes into illegal 'sex slavery'.

(nautical) A ship used to transport slaves.

Anagrams

• arvels, larves, lavers, ravels, revals, salver, serval, velars, versal

Source: Wiktionary


Slav"er, n.

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

2. A person engaged in the purchase and sale of slaves; a slave merchant, or slave trader. The slaver's hand was on the latch, He seemed in haste to go. Longfellow.

Slav"er, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Slavered; p. pr. & vb. n. Slavering.] Etym: [Cf. Icel. slafra. See Slabber.]

1. To suffer spittle, etc., to run from the mouth.

2. To be besmeared with saliva. Shak.

Slav"er, v. t.

Definition: To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth; to defile with drivel; to slabber.

Slav"er, n.

Definition: Saliva driveling from the mouth. Of all mad creatures, if the learned are right, It is the slaver kills, and not the bite. Pope.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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