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

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

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

From Audrey by Mary Johnston

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

He was a bond servant; he was permitted to compound his servitude by a daily payment; he was allowed to work partly for himself and partly for the crown, at the same moment.

From The History of Tasmania , Volume II by John West