bondman
Americannoun
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bondmen
plural
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a male slave.
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a man bound to service without wages.
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Old English Law. a villein or other unfree tenant.
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Etymology
Origin of bondman
First recorded in 1200–50; Middle English bonde man; see bond 2, man
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A fire was indeed coming—was already kindled—which was to set the bondman free: and God was in the fire.
From Cudjo's Cave by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge
"I think you are in love with that tall bondman of the Saxon chieftain's, Jeannette."
From The Last of the Vikings by John Bowling
Then the King caused the man whom he had found asleep to be brought forward, and he proved to be a bondman.
From Stories and Ballads of the Far Past Translated from the Norse (Icelandic and Faroese) with Introductions and Notes by Nora Kershaw
One who is absent wishes to free his bondman in the assembly.
From A Captive of the Roman Eagles by Felix Dahn
It is always important to decide whether a bondman is in the seisin of his lord or not, and the chief means to show it is to trace his connexion with the territorial lordship.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff
In Canada, the bail system is largely predicated on community trust and connections and does not involve large cash deposits and commercial bail bondmen, as it does in many U.S. states.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2021
As was too often the case, a handful of nervous bondmen informed their masters of what was afoot.
From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2015
In the busiest underwriting week since 1929, bondmen offered $378 million of corporate and municipal bonds to an easy-money market that gulped the flotations and bid for more.
From Time Magazine Archive
Retail bondmen complained of the small percentage of a security's selling price that they must work on.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of which amercements, or ransoming of bondmen, some lords’ stewards say that it is rightful, forasmuch as a churl hath no temporal thing that is not his lord’s, as they say.
From Chaucer and His England by G. G. Coulton
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