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

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bond servant

The Romance is told of a Colonial bond servant who becomes George Washington's nearest and dearest colonel.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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 Parrish, Randall

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

He had become the bond servant of his own passions.

From Five Young Men Messages of Yesterday for the Young Men of To-day by Brown, Charles Reynolds