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单词 bonage
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bonagen.

Forms: Also bonnage.
Etymology: apparently variant of boonage n., perhaps confused with bondage.
Scottish. Obsolete.
Services rendered by a tenant to his landlord as part of rent.
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1791 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. I. 433 Bonnage is an obligation on the part of the tenant to cut down the proprietor's corn. This duty he must perform when called on.
1794 J. Donaldson Agric. Kincardine 213 (Jam.) Another set of payments consisted in services, emphatically called Bonage (from bondage). These were exacted in seed-time, in ploughing and harrowing the proprietor's land..in harvest, in cutting down his crop.
1861 C. Innes Sketches Early Sc. Hist. iii. 384 A lease of a half-merk land of Port Loch Tay, with steelbow and ‘bonage’, according to custom.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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