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Laveth vs Slaveth - What's the difference?

laveth | slaveth |

As verbs the difference between laveth and slaveth

is that laveth is (archaic) (lave) while slaveth is (slave).

laveth

English

Verb

(head)
  • (archaic) (lave)

    • lave

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (lav)
  • (obsolete) To pour or throw out, as water; lade out; bail; bail out.
    • (Dryden)
  • To draw, as water; drink in.
  • To give bountifully; lavish.
  • To run down or gutter, as a candle.
  • (dialectal) To hang or flap down.
  • (ambitransitive, archaic) To wash.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • In her chaste current oft the goddess laves .
  • * 1789 , William Lisle Bowles, 'Sonnet I' from Fourteen Sonnets , 1789.
    • the tranquil tide, / That laves the pebbled shore.
  • * 2006 , Cormac McCarthy, The Road , London: Picador, 2007, p. 38.
    • The boy walked out and squatted and laved up the dark water.
    Related terms
    * lather * launder * laundry * lavender * lavish * lavy * lye

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) . More at (l).

    Noun

    (-)
  • (archaic or dialectal) The remainder, rest; that which is left, remnant; others.
  • * 1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , Night 12.
    • Then they set upon us and slew some of my slaves and put the lave to flight.
  • * 1896 (posthumously), Robert Louis Stevenson, Songs of Travel and other verses .[https://archive.org/details/songsoftraveloth00stevrich]
    • Give to me the life I love,/Let the lave go by me...

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    References

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    slaveth

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (slave)

    • slave

    English

    Alternative forms

    : * ** sclaue * ** sclaue ** sclave * ** sclaue ** sklaw ** sklaue ** sklave : * ** slaif ** slaue ** slave (modern spelling developed) * ** slaue ** slave (whenceforth the modern spelling predominated)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who is the property of another person and whose labor and also whose life often is subject to the owner's volition.
  • A person who is legally obliged by prior contract (oral or written) to work for another, with contractually limited rights to bargain; an indentured servant.
  • One who has lost the power of resistance; one who surrenders to something.
    • a slave to passion, to strong drink, or to ambition
  • A drudge; one who labours like a slave.
  • An abject person; a wretch.
    • Art thou the slave that with thy breath hast kill'd/ Mine innocent child? Shakespeare. Much Ado About Nothing.
  • A person who is forced against his/her will to perform, for another person or other persons, sexual acts or other personal services on a regular or continuing basis.
  • (engineering) A device that is controlled by another device.

    • Derived terms

    (terms derived from slave) * antislavery * bondslave * enslave * enslavement * enslaver * no slave to fashion * postslavery * sex slave * sexual slavery * slaveboy * slave code * slavedom * slave driver, slave-driver * Slave Dynasty * slave-girl, slavegirl * slaveholder * slaveholding * slave labour * slaveless * slavelike * slavemaster * slaveowner * slaver * slave to fashion * slavery * slave ship * slave trade * slavey * slavish * wage slave * white slave * white slaver * white slavery

    See also

    * chattel * indentured servant * * (Slavery)

    Verb

    (slav)
  • To work hard.
    • I was slaving all day over a hot stove.
  • To enslave.
    • (Marston)
  • To place a device under the control of another.
    • to slave a hard disk
  • * 2005 , Simon Millward, Fast Guide to Cubase SX (page 403)
    • Slaving one digital audio device to another unit using timecode alone results in time-based synchronisation

    References

    * August 2, 2004 , "EE Times: Beware 'zombie' clauses * Notes:

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