spiriter
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who spirits away another, particularly one who steals children to be sold into forced labour in the New World.
noun
One who is sensitive to spirits; a medium or spiritualist.
Example Sentences
- "When Jupiter, in shape of Eagle, Came the young stripling to inveigle, And seizing him like any Sparrow With his Beak holding his Tiara, To make him sure as swift as Hobby, He bare him into Heaven's Lobby; Whilst the poor boy half dead with Fear, Writh'd back to view his Spiriter."
- "Her name was Susan. She had no other, for she was a foundling. His father had told him she'd been kidnaped by spiriters, evil men who seized orphans and shipped them to the Colonies as bond servants."
- "Few people knew what sort of life they were going to, some were cruelly duped and quite a few at the beginning of the 18th century were the victims of 'spiriters'."
- "Tis the spiriters come back! Stop them! Run, bairns, run!"
- "The protagonist, a young Scots girl, is kidnapped by "spiriters" who sell their victims as bond slaves to planters and farmers in America."
- "Originally stealing children as young as 6 years old, spiriters discovered to their disgust those children were too weak to survive the harsh conditions of transit. So they targeted children 8 years or older. One French spiriter claimed to have sold more than 500 children in a year's time."
Etymology
From spirit + -er.