bondman
Americannoun
plural
bondmen-
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.
Etymology
Origin of bondman
First recorded in 1200–50; Middle English bonde man; see bond 2, man
Vocabulary lists containing bondman
Example Sentences
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He is not a bondman of any one's my lady, for he told me so himself.
From The Last of the Vikings by Bowling, John
He had gone to London before the party at Pendarrel, to consult Mr. Truby, and to see his bondman, Everope.
From Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. by Watson, William Davy
Now, being over twenty-one I was my own bondman, and the bank couldn't collect from anybody but me—or the guarantee company.
From A Canadian Bankclerk by Buschlen, J. P.
Instead it involved and assured for every bondman a full emancipation, and for every freeman full title forever to every unalienable right.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.
The scriptural Joseph had been sold as a bondman into Egypt; this little Joseph seemed to have been brought into the world to be a slave.
From A Book of Ghosts by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
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