bond servant

American  

Or bond-servant

noun

1. a person who serves in bondage; slave.

2. a person bound to service without wages.

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Etymology

Origin of bond servant

First recorded in 1525–35

Example Sentences

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

The free man is more alert to obligation, more conscientious in performance, than the bond servant.

From Mobilizing Woman-Power by Blatch, Harriot Stanton

To me, and my father and mother and Ephraim, thee is no bond servant of Marmaduke Haward.

From Audrey by Johnston, Mary

If thy brother … be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bond servant: but as an hired servant.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah