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

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 Holt, Mathew Joseph

Even the bond servant, according to St. Paul, is not to be deprived of his moral dignity, but is to be treated as under God a serving brother.

From The Hearth-Stone Thoughts upon Home-Life in Our Cities by Osgood, Samuel

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

From Audrey by Johnston, Mary