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manstealer en · NOUN

Etymology

From man + stealer.

Meanings

  1. A slave-dealer; someone who seizes another person to hold that person as a slave or sell that person into slavery; more loosely: a slaveholder.
    • The law is made for manstealers. 1836, American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4:

Forms

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man-stealer alternative lexicographic
manstealers Number=Plur lexicographic

Relateds

menstealer · men-stealer