Slaver

Quick meaning: Slaver is a verb meaning (intransitive) To drool saliva from the mouth; to slobber.

Meaning

(intransitive) To drool saliva from the mouth; to slobber.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To fawn.
2. (intransitive, of saliva) To be drooled out of someone’s mouth.
3. (transitive) To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth.
4. To be besmeared with saliva.
5. Saliva running from the mouth; drool.
6. A person engaged in the slave trade; a person who buys, sells, transports, or owns slaves.
7. (nautical) A ship used to transport slaves.

Example Sentences

The Gulnare was a fast sailer, built for a slaver originally[.]

should I, damn'd then, / Slaver with lips as common as the stairs / That mount the Capitol

Of all mad Creatures, if the Learn'd are right, / It is the Slaver kills, and not the Bite.

He went over to it, held it in his hands awhile, feeling its coolness, smelling the clammy slaver of the lather in which the brush was stuck.

Word Forms

• slavers
• slavering
• slavered

Synonyms for slaver

Depending on context, synonyms include drool, slobber, drivel, dribble, slabber, slaveholder.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include slobber, drool, slabber, drivel, slaveholder, dribble.

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