Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which (as an ant) makes slaves. See
slave-making .
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- noun an ant that attacks colonies of other ant species and carries off the young to be reared as slave ants
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Examples
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But unlike parasitic slave-maker ants, which raid and virtually destroy the colonies of unsuspecting hosts, L. minutissimus appears to move in and live amiably with its host.
Boing Boing: January 25, 2004 - January 31, 2004 Archives 2004
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To this might easily be added man-hunter and slave-maker, a worthy attribute of Nimrod.
Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828
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