: saliva dribbling from the mouth
1
a
: a ship used in the slave trade
b
: a person engaged in the slave trade
2
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Examples of slaver in a Sentence
Verb
a dog slavering over a bone
Noun (1)
slaver dripped from the snarling dog's jaws
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Becca Rothfeld, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2024
Just don’t become a streak-Gollum like me, slavering miserably and alone over your treasure in a dank mental cave.
—John Hodgman, New York Times, 27 July 2023
Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
Over a quarter century later, Garza has compiled an online database with 1.1 million names from northeastern Mexico and Texas, and feels no need to distance himself from forebears who were conquistadors or slavers.
—Edward Rueda, NBC News, 29 Sep. 2024
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Verb
One decorous young professional after another is attacked and transformed into a slavering monster, until at last all the residents converge in the heated pool.
—Becca Rothfeld, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2024
Just don’t become a streak-Gollum like me, slavering miserably and alone over your treasure in a dank mental cave.
—John Hodgman, New York Times, 27 July 2023
Noun
The independent duchies of sixteenth-century Italy established free ports, which allowed slavers safe passage and relieved import duties for transiting merchants in need of temporary storage for perishable goods like grain.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
Over a quarter century later, Garza has compiled an online database with 1.1 million names from northeastern Mexico and Texas, and feels no need to distance himself from forebears who were conquistadors or slavers.
—Edward Rueda, NBC News, 29 Sep. 2024
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“Slaver.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slaver. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.
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slaver
2 of 2 noun
slav·er
ˈslā-vər
1
: a person who traffics or holds enslaved people
2
a ship used to traffic enslaved people
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