What does "slaver" mean?
Slaver: A person engaged in the purchase and sale of slaves; a slave merchant, or slave trader. The slaver's hand was on the latch, He seemed in haste to go. Longfellow.
Additional senses
- 2.To suffer spittle, etc., to run from the mouth.
- 3.To be besmeared with saliva. Shak.
- 4.To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth; to defile with drivel; to slabber.
- 5.Saliva driveling from the mouth. Of all mad creatures, if the learned are right, It is the slaver kills, and not the bite. Pope.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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