bond servant
Americannoun
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a person who serves in bondage; slave.
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a person bound to service without wages.
Etymology
Origin of bond servant
First recorded in 1525–35
Example Sentences
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Partly because of the nature of the vice-presidency, mostly because of the President's approach to subordinates, the once irrepressible Humphrey may have become a bond servant of Lyndon Johnson.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Romance is told of a Colonial bond servant who becomes George Washington's nearest and dearest colonel.
From Time Magazine Archive
You are rich, with position and friends of influence, while I at best am but a merchant skipper, in truth a bond servant, penniless and disgraced.
From Wolves of the Sea Being a Tale of the Colonies from the Manuscript of One Geoffry Carlyle, Seaman, Narrating Certain Strange Adventures Which Befell Him Aboard the Pirate Craft "Namur" by Randall Parrish
The free man is more alert to obligation, more conscientious in performance, than the bond servant.
From Mobilizing Woman-Power by Harriot Stanton Blatch
John Mason, the former bond servant, still remained with him; and made a most efficient and trustworthy foreman.
From Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant by Mathew Joseph Holt
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