blackbirder

[blak-bur-der]

noun

(formerly) a person or ship illegally engaged in the slave trade, especially in the Pacific.

Origin of blackbirder

First recorded in 1880–85; blackbird + -er¹

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Examples from the Web for blackbirder

Historical Examples of blackbirder

They say he used to be a pirate and blackbirder and that he can tell strange yarns if he will—but that's all talk.
The Pirate Shark
Elliott Whitney
The authorities, they get worried because a Kanaka's spree lands him, like as not, in a blackbirder.
The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
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