Slave - English meaning

noun

An old world thrush with mainly black plumage.

Usage examples:

If no berries remain, having been stripped earlier by blackbirds and mistle thrushes, they perish.

noun

A slave or serf.

Usage examples:

We are sold for bondslaves.

noun

A person who stands surety for a bond.

Usage examples:

Due diligence on the part of the bondsman is required.

verb

Reduce (something) to small particles or powder by crushing it.

Usage examples:

Grind some black pepper over the salad

noun

A crushing or grating sound or motion.

Usage examples:

The crunch and grind of bulldozers

noun

Reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading

noun

The larva of an insect, especially a beetle.

Usage examples:

My onions are ruined by small grubs eating the roots

verb

Dig or poke about in soil.

Usage examples:

The damage done to pastures by badgers grubbing for worms

noun

Food

Usage examples:

The food was just good, greasy grub., can i grub a sandwich from you?

noun

A member of a class of serfs in ancient sparta, intermediate in status between slaves and citizens.

Usage examples:

Boeotia was agriculturally rich but had neither athens' silver nor sparta's helots.

noun

(in ancient times) a slave living in a temple and dedicated to the service of a god.

Usage examples:

An ivory aphrodite is celebrated by her hierodules in myrtle bowers.

noun

Work, especially physical work.

Usage examples:

The price of repairs includes labour, parts, and vat

verb

Work hard; make great effort.

Usage examples:

They laboured from dawn to dusk

noun

Practical work, especially involving physical effort

Usage examples:

The cost will depend on the amount of labour involved., they gave us an estimated price including p…

noun

A female slave or concubine in a harem, especially one in the seraglio of the sultan of turkey.

Usage examples:

But so gaudy a style made her look like a pampered odalisque rather than the mother of the future k…

verb

Walk doggedly and slowly with heavy steps.

Usage examples:

We plodded back up the hill

noun

A slow, heavy walk.

Usage examples:

He settled down to a steady plod

verb

Walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud

noun

A large farming implement with one or more blades fixed in a frame, drawn over soil to turn it over and cut furrows in preparation for the planting of seeds.

Usage examples:

The strip shape of these plots suggests that they were ploughed with a heavy plough with a fixed mo…

verb

Turn up the earth of (an area of land) with a plough, especially before sowing.

Usage examples:

Uncle vic ploughed his garden

noun

A large farming tool with blades that digs the soil in fields so that seeds can be planted

Usage examples:

These fields have been under the plough for centuries., farmers start ploughing in the spring., we'…

noun

An agricultural labourer bound by the feudal system who was tied to working on his lord's estate.

noun

Moisture exuded through the pores of the skin, typically in profuse quantities as a reaction to heat, physical exertion, fever, or fear.

Usage examples:

Beads of sweat broke out on her brow

verb

Another term for sweatsuit or sweatpants.

verb

To excrete a salty, colorless liquid through the skin, esp. when you are hot or frightened

Usage examples:

He was sweating profusely., the soda cans sweat in this humidity., we have to sweat about money bec…

noun

The state of being in someone's power, or of having great power over someone.

Usage examples:

The town in thrall to a villain

noun

If you are in thrall to someone or something, or in the thrall of someone or something, he, she, or it has a lot of power to control you

Usage examples:

Her love for him was like a madness, and she was completely in its thrall.

verb

Work extremely hard or incessantly.

Usage examples:

We toiled away

noun

Exhausting physical labour.

Usage examples:

A life of toil

noun

A holder of land by feudal tenure on conditions of homage and allegiance.

Usage examples:

Liege homage involved the vassal admitting his obligation to pay all services, including the provis…

noun

A person in the middle ages who promises to be loyal to a lord (= a man of high social rank) who will protect him or her