BLACKBIRDING

Meaning of BLACKBIRDING in English

(n.) The act or practice of collecting natives of the islands near Queensland for service on the Queensland sugar plantations.

Webster's English dictionary. Английский словарь Webster. 2012

BLACKBIRDING — (n.) The kidnaping of negroes or Polynesians to be sold as slaves.
Английский словарь Webster
BLACKBIRDING — /blak"berr'ding/ , n. (formerly) the act or practice of kidnapping persons, esp. Kanakas, and selling them abroad as slaves. [ …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
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 …

Английский словарь Webster

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