| 单词 | free by servitude |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfree by servitude Australian. free by servitude: applied to the recipient of a sentence of transportation whose period of transportation has expired. Now historical. ΚΠ 1817 J. L. Nicholas Narr. Voy. N.Z. I. ii. 36 The Ship's Company. Mr. Thomas Hansen, free settler, master... Thomas Hamilton, free by servitude. 1857 Courier (Hobart, Tasmania) 20 July [He] proceeded to the house of a free by servitude man named Thomas Hicking..and there apprehended, on a similar charge, James Kelly alias George Bradshaw, a man also free by servitude. 1893 Courier (Hobart, Tasmania) 24 Apr. Of the inmates on the books on the 31st December last, no less than 320..are described as ‘free by servitude’. 1998 Labour Hist. No. 74. 45 The application of Rose Cunningham, a convict, to marry Green, free by servitude, was refused in 1842. < as lemmas |
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