slave ship (slavship)

A ship employed in slave-trade (slav'trād), n. The trade or busine of procuring human beings by capture or purchase, transporting them to some distant country, and selling them as slaves; traffic in slaves. The slave-trade is now for the most part confined to Portuguese and Arabs in Africa. It was abolished in the British empire in 1807, and by Congre in the United States in 1807 (to take effect January 1st, 1808). the slave-trade; a slaver. That execrable sum of all villanies commonly called a Slave Trade. J. Wesley, Journal, Feb. 12, 1792. That part of the report of the committee of detail which sanctioned the perpetual continuance of the slave-trade. Bancroft, Hist. Const., II. 128. slave-trader (slåv'trāder), n. One who trades in slaves; a slaver. slavey (slā'vi), n [ The slavey has Mr. Frederick's hot water, and a bottle of soda-water on the same tray. He has been instructed to bring soda whenever he hears the word slavey pro Thackeray , New comes, xi. slaver1 (slav'èr), n. Icel. slafr , slaver: see slaver1 , v . Cf. slabber1 , n.] Saliva driveling from the mouth; drivel. Of all mad creatures, if the learn'd are right, It is the slaver kills, and not the bite. The first inquiry is for the mi us or a daughter, and if they can't be got at they're on to the slaveys . Mayhew , London Labour and London Poor, I. 472. Slavian (slav'i-an), a . and n . Same as Slavic . Milman , Latin Christianity, III. 125. Two mates of ve els engaged in the trade, and one person in equipping a ve el as a slaver , have been convicted and subjected to the penalty of fine and imprisonment. Lincoln , in Raymond, p. 175. 2. A person engaged in the slave-trade; a slave hunter; a slave-dealer. The Slaver led her from the door, He led her by the hand, To be his slave and paramour In a strange and distant land! Long fellow , Quadroon Girl. slaverer (slav'er-ér), n. [ slaver1 + -er1.] One who slavers; a driveler; hence, a servile, abject flatterer. slaveringly (slav'er-ing-li), adv. With slaver or drivel.