slaver
/ˈslævɚ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.40 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person engaged in the slave trade; a person who buys, sells, transports, or owns slaves.
noun
A person engaged in the slave trade; a person who buys, sells, transports, or owns slaves.
Example Sentences
- "A fearsome sight it was to behold how he swelled in his wrath, and his eyes blazed like disastrous stars at midnight, and being wood with anger he gnashed his teeth till the froth stood at his lips and slavered down his chin."
- "should I, damn'd then, / Slaver with lips as common as the stairs / That mount the Capitol"
- "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[.]"
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: slaveren, slafra
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈslævɚ/
- British English: /ˈslævə/