noun
A 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.
An abject person.
Art thou the ſlaue that with thy breath haſt kill'd / Mine innocent child?
One who has no power of resistance to something, one who surrenders to or is under the domination of something.
a slave to passion, to strong drink, or to ambition
Slave to the rhythm! / Keep it up, keep it up! / Never stop! Never stop!
A submissive partner in a BDSM relationship who consensually submits to, sexually or personally, serving one or more masters or mistresses.
In the clip the black female “slave” dons a chain around her neck for which her white mistress possesses the key. The black woman sub is further disciplined by the power of speech—the force of silence.
verb
To work as a slaver, to enslave people.
MASSINISSA: Wilt thou be slaved? SOPHONISBA: No, free
The truth is from the Zambesi to Lake Nyasa on the north and east banks of the river, there is nothing but slaving — Africans selling each other . . .
To work hard.
I was slaving all day over a hot stove.
To place a device under the control of another.
to slave a hard disk
Slaving one digital audio device to another unit using timecode alone results in time-based synchronisation[…]
name
Alternative form of Slavey.
Synonym of Sclavia.