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Definition of Slave-maker

1. Noun. An ant that attacks colonies of other ant species and carries off the young to be reared as slave ants.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Slave-maker

Literary usage of Slave-maker

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ants and Their Ways by William Farren White (1895)
"THOUGH it is twenty years since I commenced the study of ants, it was not till 1877 that I discovered the habitat of Formica sanguinea—the slave-maker. ..."

2. The Sunday Magazine by Thomas Guthrie, William Garden Blaikie, Benjamin Waugh (1880)
"... called the slave-maker. This insect carries out to the fullest extent the idea prevalent in the Middle Ages, that labour of any kind is a degradation. ..."

3. Stoddart's Encyclopaedia Americana: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and by American supplement, Encyclopaedia britannica (1883)
"The habits of the San- guinea are well described bv Mrs. Mary Treat in her Chapters on Ants, and the shining slave-maker by the writer in Proc. Acfid. Nat. ..."

4. Journal of the New York Entomological Society by New York Entomological Society (1908)
"... about one quarter inch long, and a little larger than the slave-maker I have usually observed, namely, Formica sanguinea, subsp. rubicunda var. ..."

5. The Boy Travellers in the Far East, Part Fifth: Adventures of Two Youths in by Thomas Wallace Knox (1884)
"The one known as a slave-maker is a red ant, somewhat smaller than the one before us. His habits have been studied, so that there is no doubt of his ..."

6. The African Repository by American Colonization Society (1835)
"... at him (Mr. B.) or the Colonization Society; and if sending this man home was to br called slave-making, he wished to be a slave-maker all his life. ..."

7. Human Submission by Morrison Isaac Swift (1905)
"Doctors of divinity and morals in the ant kingdom you may be sure would be on the slave-maker's side, and would reason to the slave class as follows : ' You ..."

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