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n. - A kidnapper who drugs men and takes them for compulsory service aboard a ship.

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Usage examples (23)
  • Verb (used without object) : to seize on a rope. ,He must seize on a solution, however risky. ,The engine seized up from cold
  • Among them, this turgid prize-seizer from a writer identified as B. Waldorf:
  • In my part of the country it is so much the usual method for the tiger to seize by the nape of the neck, that a native, when asked if he is sure that it was a tiger and not a...
  • He called his new creature Velociraptor mongoliensis to honor these inferred skills, for Velociraptor, means "quick seizer."
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