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Slaver vs Thrall - What's the difference?

slaver | thrall |

As verbs the difference between slaver and thrall

is that slaver is to drool saliva from the mouth; to slobber while thrall is to make a thrall.

As nouns the difference between slaver and thrall

is that slaver is saliva running from the mouth; drool or slaver can be a person engaged in the slave trade while thrall is one who is enslaved or under mind control.

slaver

English

Etymology 1

From medieval English slaveren, of Scandinavian origin, akin to or derived from (etyl) slafra "to slaver", probably imitative

Verb

(en verb)
  • To drool saliva from the mouth; to slobber.
  • To fawn.
  • To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth.
  • To be besmeared with saliva.
  • (Shakespeare)
    Synonyms
    * (emit saliva ): drool, slobber

    Noun

    (-)
  • saliva running from the mouth; drool
  • * Alexander Pope
  • Of all mad creatures, if the learned are right, / It is the slaver kills, and not the bite.

    Etymology 2

    From the verb slave 'enslave, traffic in slaves'

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a person engaged in the slave trade
  • white slaver, who sells prostitutes into illegal 'sex slavery'
  • (nautical) a ship used to transport slaves
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    thrall

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who is enslaved or under mind control.
  • * 14th century , ,
  • My servant, which that is my thrall by right
  • * 1915 , ,
  • And there were household slaves in golden collars that burned of a plenty there with her, and nine female thralls , and eight male slaves of the Angles that were of gentle birth and battle-captured.
  • (uncountable) The state of being under the control of another person.
  • * 1864 , ,
  • Go: release him from the thrall of Hautia.
  • * 1889 , ,
  • [Y]our friend, John Edward, is at the other end of the room with his whole soul held in thrall by photographs of other people's relatives.
  • * 1911 , ,
  • In her brain she was dimly conscious of balancing, or striving to balance, the abject shame which had him now in thrall against the one compelling act of courage which had flung him grandly and madly on to the point of danger.
  • A shelf; a stand for barrels, etc.
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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a thrall.