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bondman

[ bond-muhn ]

noun

, plural bond·men.
  1. a male slave.
  2. a man bound to service without wages.
  3. Old English Law. a villein or other unfree tenant.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of bondman1

First recorded in 1200–50; Middle English bonde man; bond 2, man
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Example Sentences

In those States, the bondman is disfranchised, and for the most part so are we.

Is it nothing that they have fallen, and yet such a wrong that the fetters of the bondman should fall?

If he has a name, As soon as spoken, 'tis writ on my heart I am his bondman.

If a bondman or slave kills another by his master's command, whether he ought to be punished for the same?

Then the King caused the man whom he had found asleep to be brought forward, and he proved to be a bondman.

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