Crossword clues for slaver
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slabber \Slab"ber\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Slabbered; p. pr. & vb. n. Slabbering.] [OE. slaberen; akin to LG. & D. slabbern, G. schlabbern, LG. & D. slabben, G. schlabben, Icel. slafr
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"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.
"ship in the slave trade," 1830, agent noun from slave (v.). Meaning "person in the slave trade" is from 1842.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. saliva running from the mouth; drool vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To drool saliva from the mouth; to slobber. 2 (context intransitive English) To fawn. 3 (context transitive English) To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth. 4 To be besmeared with saliv
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Etymology 2
n. 1 a person engaged in the slave trade 2 white slaver, who sells prostitutes into illegal 'sex slavery' 3 (context nautical English) a ship used to transport slaves
WordNet
n. a person engaged in slave trade [syn: slave dealer, slave trader]
someone who owns slaves [syn: slaveholder, slave owner]
v. let saliva drivel from the mouth; "The baby drooled" [syn: drivel, drool, slabber, slobber, dribble]
Wikipedia
Slaver has several meanings:
- One who deals in slaves - see slave trade
- A slave ship
- The Thrintun, from Larry Niven's fictional universe of Known Space, were also called Larry's peeps.
- Slavers (film), a 1978 film
- Saliva, i.e. either the result or act of drooling as opposed to normal salivation: see wikt:slaver
See also: Slave.
Usage examples of "slaver".
She was on her way to be married when her party was ambushed by the slavers.
Gaston soon saw that he was serving his apprenticeship on a slaver, one of the many ships sent yearly by the free and philanthropic Americans, who made immense fortunes by carrying on the slave-trade.
We marched northward, hoping to come upon a barracoon where slavers came, but they cut us off, and we turned due eastward perforce.
I saw thered eyes, the slavering mouths, the foam bespecked with blood.
If you ask me, said Margery into her glass of grog- for whom else had she to talk to, with Jin, the slut, for ever creeping out to the backyard for a word or something more with James, and Poll with her slavering mouth and her doll, little more than an idiot, and Esther walking on air because she was in love?
The saurischian predator of unknown species slavers and roars and glares.
High on one broken wall, Pug noticed a half-scraped-off propaganda poster: a schoolage German girl in blonde braids, cowering before a slavering ape in a Red Army uniform, reaching hairy talons for her breasts.
The animals were slavering brutes with underslung jaws and the red eyes of killers.
As the spinning waters reached the spot where Polgara stood, she began to be drawn toward the deadly whirlpool and the slavering demon still whirling in its center.
Savagely, he chopped a path through the ranks of the slavering Raveners, who reached out mindlessly to pull him from his saddle.
Slowly the slavering monster turned about in midair and then dropped to the ground.
On the other hand, the professional slaver, as a business practice, almost always brands his chattels, and it is seldom that an unbranded girl ascends the block.
He turned on his heel, held the cartridge case with the open end up, pressed the hole like the mouthpiece of a flute against his protruding, slavering lower lip, and projected a new note, now shrill, now muffled as though by the fog, into the mounting whish of the rain.
As Bollux sat heavily into the acceleration chair, Max extended an adaptor, the one Chewbacca had repaired after the encounter with the slavers.
Miles, on the other hand, had slavered at her hand like a trained boarhound ready for the signal to kill.