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slaver

/sley-ver/US // ˈsleɪ vər //UK // (ˈsleɪvə) //

奴隶主,奴仆,掠夺者,荡妇

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who buys, sells, or owns human beings; an enslaver.
    • : slave ship.

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Examples

  • It is worth noting that most captives did not live longer than a few months after arriving in Europe, succumbing to foreign illness or malnourishment when their slavers did not feed them.

  • On the same evening we saw a vessel, which our captain affirmed was a slaver, run into the bay.

  • We had hardly lost sight of the slaver before one of our own crew had nearly committed suicide.

  • That and more too might be said of the districts where the white slaver grows rich from his traffic in girls.

  • Upon refusing they were dragged through the streets and given to a white slaver.

  • The wind had died away and the slaver lay between the yawl and the eastern dawn, a dim yet recognizable bulk.