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Webster 1913 Edition


Slaver

Slav′er

,
Noun.
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

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Slavered
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Slavering
.]
[Cf. Icel.
slafra
. See
Slabber
.]
1.
To suffer spittle, etc., to run from the mouth.
2.
To be besmeared with saliva.
Shak.

Slav′er

,
Verb.
T.
To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth; to defile with drivel; to slabber.

Slav′er

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

Webster 1828 Edition


Slaver

SLAV'ER

,
Noun.
[the same as slabber.] Saliva driveling from the mouth.

SLAV'ER

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To suffer the spittle to issue from the mouth.
2.
To be besmeared with saliva.

SLAV'ER

,
Verb.
T.
To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth; to defile with drivel.

Definition 2024


slaver

slaver

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈslævə/
  • (US) enPR: slăvʹər, IPA(key): /ˈslævɚ/

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To drool saliva from the mouth; to slobber.
  2. (intransitive) To fawn.
  3. (transitive) To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth.
  4. To be besmeared with saliva.
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Synonyms
Translations

Noun

slaver (uncountable)

  1. saliva running from the mouth; drool
    • Alexander Pope
      Of all mad creatures, if the learned are right, / It is the slaver kills, and not the bite.

Etymology 2

From the verb slave 'enslave, traffic in slaves'

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: slāʹvə, IPA(key): /ˈsleɪvə/
  • (US) enPR: slāʹvər, IPA(key): /ˈsleɪvɚ/

Noun

slaver (plural slavers)

  1. a person engaged in the slave trade
  2. white slaver, who sells prostitutes into illegal 'sex slavery'
  3. (nautical) a ship used to transport slaves
Translations

References

  • slaver” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).
  • Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Anagrams


Danish

Noun

slaver c (singular definite }}}, plural indefinite slaver)

  1. Slav

Noun

slaver c

  1. plural indefinite of slave

Verb

slaver

  1. present tense of slave

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

slaver m

  1. indefinite plural of slave

Swedish

Noun

slaver

  1. indefinite plural of slav