Free translatorFree translator
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Bond servant   Listen
noun
Bond servant, bond-servant  n.  A slave; one who is bound to service without wages. "If thy brother... be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bond servant: but as an hired servant."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |





"Bond servant" Quotes from Famous Books



... have had my doubts, since she is little like a bond-servant, and when we first met she greeted me in noble wise. But let us make trial of ...
— Told by the Northmen: - Stories from the Eddas and Sagas • E. M. [Ethel Mary] Wilmot-Buxton

... tribunal had but confirmed the verdict of public sentiment. But, in that early severity of the Puritan character, an inference of this kind could not so indubitably be drawn. It might be that a sluggish bond-servant, or an undutiful child, whom his parents had given over to the civil authority, was to be corrected at the whipping-post. It might be that an Antinomian, a Quaker, or other heterodox religionist, was to be scourged out of the town, ...
— The Scarlet Letter • Nathaniel Hawthorne



Words linked to "Bond servant" :   bondwoman, bondmaid, bondman, bondsman, thrall



Copyright © 2024 Free Translator.org