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Webster 1913 Edition


Manstealer

Man′stealˊer

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Noun.
A person who steals or kidnaps a human being or beings.

Webster 1828 Edition


Manstealer

MAN'STEALER

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Noun.
One who steals and sells men.

Definition 2024


manstealer

manstealer

See also: man-stealer

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Noun

manstealer (plural manstealers)

  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.
    • 1836, American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4:
      The law is made for manstealers.

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