Definitions

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  • noun One who owns a slave.
  • noun One who controls the action of a slave owned by others.

Etymologies

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slave +‎ master

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Examples

  • Is that not the same institution whose proudly-used nickname is based on what slaves used to call the slavemaster's wife?

    Memphis Flyer 2009

  • Another replica-for dealt with the problem by reprogramming other replicators to bring their extracted ores to it; they dubbed that one the "slavemaster," and discovered that the slavemaster had organized a defense against the cannibals, built around using the slaves in teams.

    Mother Of Storms Barnes, John, 1957- 1994

  • I often have the opposite issue: people in Australia expect a 'Maxine Clarke' inherited slavemaster name, I'm guessing to be white!

    Race and Writing Lauri 2010

  • THE ROBOTS, you should welcome them now as your slavemaster

    TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads 2010

  • Let's leave the whiteman to Ted Bundy, Clifford Olsen and the like, we can do better than put up with these children of the slavemaster.

    We Listen – Your comments 11/17/2009 2009

  • For me, my ‘X’ replaced the white slavemaster name of ‘Little’ which some blue-eyed devil named Little had imposed upon my paternal forebears.

    HW Bio: Malcolm X « 2009

  • In retrospect it seems to me that her husband Walter (played by Bill Macy) was a patriarchal slavemaster of the worst kind.

    Danny Miller: Bea Arthur's Perfect Comic Timing 2009

  • Mr. Goodman is the most familiar face in the cast, a consummately reliable comic actor whose work in film and on TV did nothing to prepare me for his supersized performance as Pozzo, the bullying slavemaster who proves to be at the mercy of Lucky (John Glover), the pitiful wretch who carries his bags and does his bidding.

    The End of a Long Wait 2009

  • How many home-schooled kids were forcibly taken from their homelands and sold as chattels to live and die under the whip of the slavemaster?

    La Senza: It's A Crime To Print It Cosmo7 2009

  • If Socialism is Slavery, do I not have a duty to shoot the slavemaster before he slaps an iron collar around my neck?

    "When a family is burning to death in front of your eyes, rules should go out of the window – especially with kids. Everybody wanted to try and help." Ann Althouse 2009

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