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Meaning of Slaver | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
ˈslævə

Definitions

  1. Saliva running from the mouth; drool.
  2. A person engaged in the slave trade; a person who buys, sells, transports, or owns slaves.
  3. A white slaver; a person who sells prostitutes into sexual slavery.
  4. A ship used to transport slaves.

Equivalents

العربية اللعاب
Dansk savle
Deutsch geifern Sabbern
Italiano sbavare
日本語 涎が出る
Nederlands kwijlen slavenhaler slavenschip zabberen
Português babar
Українська работорговець

Examples

“Of all mad Creatures, if the Learn'd are right, / It is the Slaver kills, and not the Bite.”
“He went over to it, held it in his hands awhile, feeling its coolness, smelling the clammy slaver of the lather in which the brush was stuck.”
“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” […]”
“The Gulnare was a fast sailer, built for a slaver originally[.]”
“Somewhat unsurprisingly, unleashing the most powerful navy on the planet with carte blanche to exterminate slavers on sight saw a dramatic and sudden collapse in slaver numbers in the late 1840s and early 1850s.”

CEFR level

C2
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