slave.html - {n.} A cruel, merciless boss or employer who makes the people under him work extremely hard for little compensation. * /Mr. Catwallender is such a slave driver that nobody cares to work for him anymore./

slave.html - n. & v.
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1 a person who is the legal property of another or others and is bound to absolute obedience, a human chattel.
2 a drudge, a person working very hard.
3 (foll. by of, to) a helpless victim of some dominating influence (slave of fashion; slave to duty).
4 a machine, or part of one, directly controlled by another.

--v.

1 intr. (often foll. by at, over) work very hard.
2 tr. (foll. by to) subject (a device) to control by another.

slave-bangle a bangle of gold, glass, etc., worn by a woman usu. above the elbow. slave-born born in slavery, born of slave parents. slave-bracelet = slave-bangle. slave-drive (past -drove; past part. -driven) work (a person) hard, esp. excessively. slave-driver 1 an overseer of slaves at work.
2 a person who works others hard. slave labour forced labour. slave ship hist. a ship transporting slaves, esp. from Africa. Slave State hist. any of the southern States of the US in which slavery was legal before the Civil War. slave-trade hist. the procuring, transporting, and selling of human beings, esp. African Blacks, as slaves. slave-trader hist. a person engaged in the slave-trade. [ME f. OF esclave = med.L sclavus, sclava Slav (captive): see SLAV]

slave.html - n.
hist. a ship or person engaged in the slave-trade.

slave.html - n. & v.
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1 saliva running from the mouth.
2 a fulsome or servile flattery. b drivel, nonsense.

--v.

intr.
1 let saliva run from the mouth, dribble.
2 (foll. by over) show excessive sentimentality over, or desire for. [ME prob. f. LG or Du.: cf. SLOBBER]

slave.html - n.
1 the condition of a slave.
2 exhausting labour; drudgery.
3 the custom of having slaves.

slave.html - n.
(pl. -eys) colloq. a maidservant, esp. a hard-worked one.