LekhoriLekhoriA person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition and control.
Fear of their cargo bred a savage cruelty into the crew. One captain, to strike terror into the rest, killed a slave and dividing heart, liver and entrails into 300 pieces made each of the slaves eat one, threatening those who refused with the same torture. Such incidents were not rare.
A drudge; one who labors or is obliged (e.g. by prior contract) to labor like a slave with limited rights, e.g. an indentured servant.
Alternative form of Slavey.
To work as a slaver, to enslave people.
MASSINISSA: Wilt thou be slaved? SOPHONISBA: No, free
To work hard.
Alternative form of Slavey.
Synonym of Sclavia.
Inherited from Middle English sclave, from Old French sclave, from Medieval Latin sclavus (“slave”), from Late Latin Sclavus (“Slav”), traditionally assumed to be because Slavs were often forced into ...
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I was slaving all day over a hot stove.
To place a device under the control of another.
to slave a hard disk