slave : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a slave condemned to row in a galley
  
• noun a laborer who is obliged to do menial work
  peon; navvy; drudge.
  

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• a person condemned, often as a punishment for crime, to work at the oar on board a galley. "To toil like a galley slave." Macaulay.

Webster 1913

• noun a lake in the Northwest Territories in northwestern Canada; drained by the Mackenzie River
  

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• adjective satellite where slavery was prohibited
  slaveless; free-soil.
  
  • a free-soil state

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• noun any of various ants captured as larvae and enslaved by another species
  

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• (Zoöl.), any species of ants which is captured and enslaved by another species, especially Formica fusca of Europe and America, which is commonly enslaved by Formica sanguinea.

Webster 1913

• one who attempted to catch and bring back a fugitive slave to his master.

Webster 1913

• part of the western coast of Africa to which slaves were brought to be sold to foreigners.

Webster 1913

• noun a person engaged in slave trade
  slave dealer; slaver.
  

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• noun a cruel employer who demands excessive work from the employees
  Simon Legree.
  
• noun a supervisor of slaves at work
  

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• one who superintends slaves at their work; hence, figuratively, a cruel taskmaster.

Webster 1913

• . (a) A search after persons in order to reduce them to slavery . Barth. (b) A search after fugitive slaves, often conducted with bloodhounds.

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• noun a marketplace where slaves were auctioned off (especially in the southern United States before the American Civil War)
  

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• noun someone who holds slaves
  slaveholder; slaver.
  

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• noun a ship used to transport slaves from their homes to places of bondage
  

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• a vessel employed in the slave trade or used for transporting slaves; a slaver.

Webster 1913

• noun any of the southern states in which slavery was legal prior to the American Civil War
  

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• noun traffic in slaves; especially in Black Africans transported to America in the 16th to 19th centuries
  slave trade.
  

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• the busines of dealing in slaves, especially of buying them for transportation from their homes to be sold elsewhere.

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• noun a person engaged in slave trade
  slave dealer; slaver.
  

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• one who traffics in slaves.

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• noun traffic in slaves; especially in Black Africans transported to America in the 16th to 19th centuries
  slave trade.
  

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• noun an ant that attacks colonies of other ant species and carries off the young to be reared as slave ants
  slave-maker.
  

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• noun an ant that attacks colonies of other ant species and carries off the young to be reared as slave ants
  slave-maker.
  

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• noun a woman sold into prostitution
  

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