[slave] n [ME sclave, fr. OF or ML; OF esclave, fr. ML sclavus, fr. Sclavus Slav; fr. the frequent enslavement of Slavs in central Europe] (14c) 1: a person held in servitude as the chattel of another
2: one that is completely subservient to a dominating influence
3: a device (as the printer of a computer) that is directly responsive to another
4: drudge, toiler -- slave adj
[2]slave vb slaved ; slav.ing vt (1602) 1 archaic: enslave
2: to make directly responsive to another mechanism ~ vi 1: to work like a slave: drudge
2: to traffic in slaves