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单词 bondman
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Definition of bondman in US English:

bondman

noun ˈbɑn(d)mənˈbän(d)mənˈbɑn(d)mən
archaic
  • A serf; a slave.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Yet one incontrovertible fact set him decidedly apart from the rabid cotton state defenders of the peculiar institution: Atchison owned at most one bondman.
    • Every man who strives to become a burgess of this town shall first be examined under oath upon a Book that he is no bondman, but free-born and of free status.
    • And every bondman and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains.
    • Although such laws were most prevalent in the South, the northern colonies also enacted statutes restricting the lives of bondmen and bondwomen.
 
 

Definition of bondman in US English:

bondman

nounˈbɑn(d)mənˈbän(d)mən
archaic
  • A serf; a slave.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Yet one incontrovertible fact set him decidedly apart from the rabid cotton state defenders of the peculiar institution: Atchison owned at most one bondman.
    • Every man who strives to become a burgess of this town shall first be examined under oath upon a Book that he is no bondman, but free-born and of free status.
    • And every bondman and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains.
    • Although such laws were most prevalent in the South, the northern colonies also enacted statutes restricting the lives of bondmen and bondwomen.
 
 
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