bondman
[ bond-muhn ]
noun,plural bond·men.
a male slave.
a man bound to service without wages.
Old English Law. a villein or other unfree tenant.
Origin of bondman
1- Also bondsman.
Words Nearby bondman
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How to use bondman in a sentence
In those States, the bondman is disfranchised, and for the most part so are we.
Is it nothing that they have fallen, and yet such a wrong that the fetters of the bondman should fall?
If he has a name, As soon as spoken, 'tis writ on my heart I am his bondman.
The Plays of Philip Massinger | Philip MassingerIf a bondman or slave kills another by his master's command, whether he ought to be punished for the same?
The Buke of the Order of Knyghthood | Ramon LlullThen the King caused the man whom he had found asleep to be brought forward, and he proved to be a bondman.
Stories and Ballads of the Far Past | Nora Kershaw
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