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men-stealers

men-stealers is the plural of men-stealer.

Meaning of men-stealer

Noun

men-stealer (plural men-stealers)

  1. A slave-dealer; someone who seizes other persons to hold those persons as slaves or sell them into slavery; more loosely: a slaveholder.
    • In abolishing slavery, you abolish that calling of the men-stealer, and in abolishing that calling you abolish slavery.1846, A Debate on Slavery, held in the City of Cincinnati on the first, second, third, and sixth days of October, 1845, page 429

Questions about men-stealers

What is men-stealers the plural of?
Men-stealers is the plural of men-stealer.

Words near men-stealers in the dictionary

  1. men-children
  2. men-o'-war
  3. men-o-war
  4. men-of-war
  5. men-stealer
  6. men-stealers
  7. Men-t'ou-kou
  8. Mena
  9. Mena Park
  10. menabitan
  11. Menaca

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