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Webster 1913 Edition


Bondslave

Bond′slaveˊ

(-slāvˊ)
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Noun.
A person in a state of slavery; one whose person and liberty are subjected to the authority of a master.

Webster 1828 Edition


Bondslave

BOND'SLAVE

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Noun.
[bond and slave.] A person in a state of slavery; one whose person and liberty are subjected to the authority of a master.

Definition 2024


bondslave

bondslave

English

Noun

bondslave (plural bondslaves)

  1. One who works as a slave under an indenture; a bondsman or bondswoman.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.11:
      To whom they shewed, how those marchants were / Arriv'd in place their bondslaves for to buy […].