slaver
1a person who buys, sells, or owns human beings; an enslaver.
Origin of slaver
1Other definitions for slaver (2 of 2)
to let saliva run from the mouth; slobber; drool.
to fawn.
Archaic. to smear with saliva.
saliva coming from the mouth.
Origin of slaver
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How to use slaver in a sentence
The Cyclops advanced on its knees, searching, its mouth slavering now.
A World Called Crimson | Darius John GrangerThe knife-blade clicked on the planking, like the clicking of his teeth that showed black through slavering lips.
Cursed | George Allan EnglandThese filthy tobacco-pipes are the most idle slavering baubles that ever I felt.
There was the grizzly coming headlong down the slope, foam slavering from his red jaws.
Kings in Exile | Sir Charles George Douglas RobertsHis suave politeness was a velvet veil of character behind which he masked the slavering fangs of the beast he really was.
'Drag' Harlan | Charles Alden Seltzer
British Dictionary definitions for slaver (1 of 2)
/ (ˈsleɪvə) /
an owner of or dealer in slaves
another name for slave ship
British Dictionary definitions for slaver (2 of 2)
/ (ˈslævə) /
to dribble saliva
(often foll by over)
to fawn or drool (over someone)
to show great desire (for); lust (after)
saliva dribbling from the mouth
informal drivel
Origin of slaver
2Derived forms of slaver
- slaverer, noun
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