Anagrams of BLACKBIRDING_

• To enslave someone, especially through chicanery or force

• The practice of kidnapping Pacific Islanders, or kanakas, for sale as cheap labour.

• the craft of laying bricks

• the backward escape of gases and unburned gunpowder after a gun is fired

• a loud noise made by the explosion of fuel in the manifold or exhaust of an internal combustion engine

• a fire that is set intentionally in order to slow an approaching forest fire or grassfire by clearing a burned area in its path

• a miscalculation that recoils on its maker

• come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect

• emit a loud noise as a result of undergoing a backfire

• set a controlled fire to halt an advancing forest to prairie fire

• a failure to maintain a higher state

• say mean things

• any bird of the family Icteridae whose male is black or predominantly black

• common black European thrush

• a man who serves as a sailor

• a small worthless amount

• someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor

• immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit; it contains an edible pulp and nutritious seeds that are commonly roasted

• a small ball at which players aim in lawn bowling

• an electrical device consisting of a connector socket designed for the insertion of a plug

• game equipment consisting of one of several small six-pointed metal pieces that are picked up while bouncing a ball in the game of jacks

• small flag indicating a ship's nationality

• one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince

• tool for exerting pressure or lifting

• any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm temperate seas

• male donkey

• lift with a special device

• hunt with a jacklight

• a kiln for making bricks

• any bird of the family Icteridae whose male is black or predominantly black

• common black European thrush

• blocking entrance to and exit from seaports and harbors