What does slaver mean?

Definitions for slaver
ˈslæv ər, ˈsleɪ vər, ˈslɑ-slaver

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. slaver, slave dealer, slave tradernoun

    a person engaged in slave trade

  2. slaveholder, slave owner, slaververb

    someone who holds slaves

  3. drivel, drool, slabber, slaver, slobber, dribbleverb

    let saliva drivel from the mouth

    "The baby drooled"

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. SLAVERnoun

    Spittle running from the mouth; drivel.

    Etymology: saliva, Latin; slæfa; Islandick.

    Mathiolus hath a passage, that a toad communicates its venom not only by urine, but by the humidity and slaver of its mouth, which will not consist with truth. Brown.

    Of all mad creatures, if the learn’d are right,
    It is the slaver kills, and not the bite. Alexander Pope.

  2. To Slaververb

    To smear with drivel.

    Twitch’d by the slave he mouths it more and more,
    ’Till with white froth his gown is slaver’d o’er. Dryden.

  3. To Slaververb

    Etymology: from the noun.

    Should I
    Slaver with lips, as common as the stairs
    That mount the capitol; join gripes with hands
    Made hard with hourly falshood as with labour. William Shakespeare.

    Miso came with scowling eyes to deliver a slavering good-morrow to the two ladies. Philip Sidney.

    Why must he sputter, spawl, and slaver it,
    In vain, against the people’s fav’rite? Jonathan Swift.

ChatGPT

  1. slaver

    Slaver is either a noun or a verb depending on usage. As a noun, it refers to a person involved in the practice of slave trade or a ship that was used for transporting slaves. As a verb, it primarily refers to the act of drooling or salivating excessively. It also can metaphorically suggest showing excessive desire or enthusiasm for something.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Slavernoun

    a vessel engaged in the slave trade; a slave ship

  2. Slavernoun

    a person engaged in the purchase and sale of slaves; a slave merchant, or slave trader

  3. Slaververb

    to suffer spittle, etc., to run from the mouth

  4. Slaververb

    to be besmeared with saliva

  5. Slaververb

    to smear with saliva issuing from the mouth; to defile with drivel; to slabber

  6. Slavernoun

    saliva driveling from the mouth

  7. Etymology: [Cf. Icel. slafra. See Slabber.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Slaver

    slav′ėr, n. spittle or saliva running from the mouth.—v.i. to let the saliva run out of the mouth.—v.t. to smear with saliva.—n. Slav′erer.—adv. Slav′eringly, in a slavering manner.—adj. Slav′ery, slabbery. [Slabber.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. slaver

    A vessel employed in the odious slave-trade.

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  2. versal

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of slaver in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of slaver in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

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