peonagen.1
/ˈpiːənɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈpiənɪdʒ/ 0.
a. The condition of being a peon; the system of having or using peons or their labour; spec. (esp. in Mexico) the practice by landlord creditors of holding debtors in servitude until their debts are repaid with labour. Also: (in the southern United States) an arrangement whereby prisoners sentenced to hard labour are leased out to private or government contractors. Now chiefly historical.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [noun]
horsemanship1566
hipponomy1618
hipparchy1631
horse-keeping1777
peonage1844
horse-mastership1904
stablecraft1931
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [noun] > keeping or driving mules
peonage1844
mule skinning1881
society > authority > subjection > service > feudal service > serfdom > [noun] > system of in Mexico
peonage1844
peonism1850
1844 J. J. Webb Mem. 50 The system of Peonage or voluntary servitude was a fixed institution.
1870 J. Orton Andes & Amazon iv. 79 Horse hire, peonage, and most mechanical work must be paid for in advance.
1903 Times 25 Nov. 5/6 The peonage system in the South practically amounts to an attempt to restore slavery under another name.
1991 Newsweek (Special ed.) Fall 69/3 The end of slavery meant the rise of sharecropping, a new form of peonage.
b. In extended use: any system of involuntary servitude or forced labour resembling or likened to peonage.
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1852 De Bow's Rev. Sept. 259 The southern booksellers are literally in a state of ‘peonage’ to the ‘barons of Cliff-street’ [sc. publishers].
1861 O. W. Holmes Elsie Venner xii. 129 The master who held her in peonage.
1934 A. Woollcott While Rome Burns 291 The Guild must often wonder why..it should ask..a company to enter into so benumbing a peonage.
1991 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 24 Oct. 47/1 Major league baseball..had always enforced a system of peonage based upon the ‘reserve clause’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
peonagen.2
/ˈpiːənɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈpiənɪdʒ/ rare.
In South Asia: the service or employment of peons as messengers.
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society > communication > information > message > [noun] > messenger > office of
messageryc1430
postship1545
heraldry1593
messengership1611
peonage1900
1900 Indian Engin. 24 Feb. 115 The hourly post..a far more satisfactory agency for the spread of their price-lists than the old cumbersome and unreliable peonage.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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