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Definition of "blackbirder" [black•bird•er]

  • A person involved in blackbirding (noun)
  • A ship used for blackbirding (noun)

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Use "blackbirder" in a sentence
  • ""blackbirder" -- "labour vessel," the wise it call -- nothing more will be needed to convince the initiated that I have moved in the "nine circles" of Polynesia."
  • "I never saw "Flash Harry" again, for a few months later I left Samoa for the Caroline Group, and when I returned a year afterwards I was told that he had at last found the country too hot for him and had left the island in a German "blackbirder" bound to the Solomon Islands."
  • "German "blackbirder" named the _Samoa_, though the captain and the crew swore they knew nothing of the matter."
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