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bondman arch.|ˈbɒndmən|
[f. bond n.2 + man: cf. husband, husbandman; but in later times evidently connected in thought with senses of bond n.1]
Cf. bondsman.
1. = bond n.2 2. Obs. exc. Hist.
c1250Owl & Night. 1577 Moni chapmon and moni cniht..And swa deþ moni bondeman. a1300Havelok 32 Hym louede..Knict, bondeman, and swain. 1503–4Act 19 Hen. VII, xv. §4 Yf eny bondeman purches eny landes..in fee symple. [1809Bawden Domesday Bk. 289 The King has there sixteen villanes & two bordars & one bondman having four ploughs.]
2. A man in bondage; a villein; a serf, slave.
a1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 1155 Whar-to serves man þe world þan, And mas hym þe worldes bondman. 1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 25 To be solde as a prysonner or a Bondeman. 1580Baret Alv. B 920 A prysonner taken in warre, a bondeman, a captiue. 1605Camden Rem. 181 That no Christian should be bondman to a Jew. 1645Milton Tetrach. Wks. (1851) 150 Instead of freeing us..make us bondmen. 1866Bryant Death of Slavery ii, Fields where the bondman's toil No more shall trench the soil.
3. bond-man-blind: old name of blind-man's buff.
1783Ainsworth Lat. Dict. (Morell) v, Myinda..The play called bond-man-blind, blind-bob, or blind-man-buff. |