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third-person singular simple present slavers, present participle slavering, simple past and past participle slavered
(intransitive) To drool saliva from the mouth; to slobber. examples
(intransitive) To fawn. examples
(transitive) To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth. examples
To be besmeared with saliva. quotations examples
should I, damn'd then, / Slaver with lips as common as the stairs / That mount the Capitol
c. 1611, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, act 1, scene 7
uncountable
Saliva running from the mouth; drool. quotations examples
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 […], page 6, lines 101–102
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.
1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […]
plural slavers
A person engaged in the slave trade; a person who buys, sells, or owns slaves. quotations examples
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, page 25
A white slaver, who sells prostitutes into illegal 'sex slavery'. examples
(nautical) A ship used to transport slaves. quotations examples
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