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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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