slavers

Noun (1)

slaver (uncountable)

1. Saliva running from the mouth; drool.
   • Of all mad Creatures, if the Learn'd are right, / It is the Slaver kills, and not the Bite.1735 January 13 (Gregorian calendar; indicated as 1734), [Alexander] Pope, An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot, London: […] J[ohn] Wright for Lawton Gilliver […], →OCLC, page 6, lines 101–102

Noun (2)

slaver (plural slavers)

1. A person engaged in the slave trade; a person who buys, sells, transports, or owns slaves.
   • The continued fight between abolitionists and slavers in Missouri caused slave owners to refuge slaves to the Confederate interior. But some Union forces that made salients into rebel territory insisted that the slaves were “contraband” […]2013, John Christgau, Incident at the Otterville Station: A Civil War Story of Slavery and Rescue, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 25
   1. A white slaver; a person who sells prostitutes into sexual slavery.
2. A ship used to transport slaves.
   • The Gulnare was a fast sailer, built for a slaver originally[.]1887, Mrs. Dominic D. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 14

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