slave : Idioms & Phrases


Galley slave

  • 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.
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great slave lake

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

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

  • 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.
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Slave catcher

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

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

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

  • 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.
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Slave hunt

  • . (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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slave market

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

  • noun someone who holds slaves
    slaveholder; slaver.
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Slave ship

  • 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.
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slave state

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

  • 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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Slave trader

  • noun a person engaged in slave trade
    slave dealer; slaver.
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  • one who traffics in slaves.
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slave traffic

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

  • 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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slave-making ant

  • 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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white slave

  • noun a woman sold into prostitution
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