bondwomann.
/ˈbɒndwʊmən/ A female slave.
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society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > [noun] > slave > female
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1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (1865) II. 97 Leyre wite, amendes for liggynge by a bondwommen.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Gal. iv. 30 Put awaye the bonde woman.
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd ii. 308 The Fugitive Bond-woman with her Son Outcast Nebaioth. View more context for this quotation
1782 E. Burke Reform House Comm. in Wks. X. 102 Yorkshire, like the child of the bond-woman, is turned out to the desert.
1872 J. Yeats Techn. Hist. Commerce 143 The most exalted lady was no more exempt than the lowliest bondwoman.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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n.1387- to hump one's drum
- to hump one's swag
- to hump the back
- to hump the bluey
- to hunt a tavern-fox
- to hunt a tavernfox
- to hunt a train-scent
- to hunt a trainscent
- to hunt at by force
- to hunt at force
- to hunt at of
- to hunt change
- to hunt down
- to hunt etc at by force
- to hunt etc at force
- to hunt etc at of
- to hunt for or catch a hare with a tabor
- to hunt grass
- to hunt heel
- to hunt in couples
- to hunt in purlieu
- to hunt in the purlieus
- to hunt it by the heel
- to hunt out
- to hunt riot