manstealing

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English

Etymology

man +‎ stealing

Noun

manstealing (uncountable)

  1. The act or business of kidnapping human beings, especially with a view to enslave them.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for manstealing”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)