BLACKBIRDING

Meaning of BLACKBIRDING in English

/blak"berr'ding/ , n.

(formerly) the act or practice of kidnapping persons, esp. Kanakas, and selling them abroad as slaves.

[ 1870-75; BLACKBIRD + -ING 1 ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary. Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House . 2012

BLACKBIRDING — (n.) The act or practice of collecting natives of the islands near Queensland for service on the Queensland sugar plantations.
Английский словарь Webster
BLACKBIRDING — (n.) The kidnaping of negroes or Polynesians to be sold as slaves.
Английский словарь Webster
BLACKBIRDING — add. ·noun the kidnaping of negroes or polynesians to be sold as slaves. 2. blackbirding ·add. ·noun the act or …
Webster English vocab
BLACKBIRDING — the 19th- and early 20th-century practice of enslaving (often by force and deception) South Pacific islanders on the cotton and …
Britannica English vocabulary
BLACKBIRDER — noun Date: 1880 a person who blackbirds, a ship used in blackbirding
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
BLACKBIRD — I. ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun Etymology: Middle English blakbrid, from blak black + brid, bird bird 1. : any of various birds …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
BLACKBIRDER — -də(r) noun 1. : a person that blackbirds 2. : a ship used in blackbirding
Webster's New International English Dictionary
BLACKBIRD — /blak"berrd'/ , n. 1. a common European thrush, Turdus merula, the male of which is black with a yellow bill. …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
BLACKBIRDER — Date: 1880 1. : a person who blackbirds 2. : a ship used in blackbirding
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
BLACKBIRDER — [black.bird.er] n (1880) 1: a person who blackbirds 2: a ship used in blackbirding
Merriam-Webster English vocab
KANAKA — (Hawaiian: Person, or Man), in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, any of the South Pacific islanders employed in …
Britannica English vocabulary
SLAVERY — n. 1 enslavement, bondage, thraldom, thrall, enthralment, servitude, serfdom, vassalage, yoke; subjugation, captivity, Historical US peculiar institution All of those …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
BLACKBIRD-CATCHING — ист жарг "отлов черных пташек" Ловля и нелегальный вывоз рабов из Африки. Такая деятельность процветала в XIX в. на Гавайях [Hawaii] и …
BLACKBIRD-CATCHING — ист. жарг. "отлов черных пташек" Ловля и нелегальный вывоз рабов из Африки. Такая деятельность процветала в XIX в. на Гавайях …

Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary

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