Meaning

1 senses
  1. (historical)A slave freed by the British Royal Navy from a slave ship and brought to Freetown, now Sierra Leone's capital city.

Origin

From re- + captive?

From re- + captive?

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Forms

plural: recaptives
Singularrecaptive
Pluralrecaptives

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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