slaver
pronunciation
How to pronounce slaver in British English:
UK [ˈsleɪvə(r)]
How to pronounce slaver in American English:
US [ˈsleɪvə(r)]
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- Noun:
- a person engaged in slave trade
- someone who owns slaves
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- Verb:
- let saliva drivel from the mouth
Word Origin
- slaver (v.)
- "dribble from the mouth," early 14c., from Old Norse slafra "to slaver," probably imitative (compare slobber (v.)). Related: Slavered; slavering. The noun is from early 14c.
- slaver (n.)
- "ship in the slave trade," 1830, agent noun from slave (v.). Meaning "person in the slave trade" is from 1842.
Example
- 1. Buying from a slaver ?
- 2. This was one reason why proprietors of print magazines began to slaver when the ipad appeared .
- 3. Morally , lincoln hated slavery and said slaver was " founded on both injustice and bad policy . "
- 4. In the modern society , material civilization is highly developed while there exists a crisis of mental world of human beings . Money worship and hedonism are prevailing , the view of value is collapsing , man becomes the slaver of material desire .
- 5. Dany shut her eyes and tried to think of home , of dragonstone and king 's landing and all the other places that viserys had told her of , in a kinder land than this ...... but her thoughts kept turning back to slaver 's bay , like ships caught in some bitter wind .