bondern.¹

/ˈbɒndə/

Etymology: < bond v. + -er suffix¹.

1. Building. A binding stone or brick; (see quot. 1845).

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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > disposition of stones or bricks > [noun] > specific stone or brick

hirne-stonec1000

parpen1252

coin1350

coin-stone1350

angler1365

parpal1369

corner-stonea1382

cunye1387

tuss1412

quoin1532

table stone1554

quoining1562

copestone1567

ground-stone1567

lock bandc1582

quinyie1588

perpender1611

whelmer1618

parpen stone1633

capstone1665

headera1684

through1683

quoin-stone1688

stretcher1693

closer1700

bed-stone1723

coping-brick1725

girder1726

footstone1728

heading brick1731

bossage1736

lewis-hole1740

shoulder1744

headstone1745

pawl1753

tail-bond1776

coping-stone1778

slocking-stone1778

throughband1794

through-stone1797

stretching-bond1805

core1823

keystone1823

tail-binder1828

stretching-stone1833

header brick1841

coign1843

pawl-stone1844

bay-stone1845

bonder1845

pillar-stone1854

bond-piece1862

stretcher-brick1867

toothing-stone1875

bond-stone1879

pierpoint1891

jumper1904

tush1905

padstone1944

1845 J. H. Parker Gloss. Terms Archit. (ed. 4) I. 57 Bonders, Bond-stones, Binding-stones..reach a considerable distance into, or entirely through a wall for the purpose of binding it together.

2. A person who puts goods into bond, or owns goods in bond.

3. One who fixes or adjusts the metallic bonds of an electric circuit. (Cf. bond n.¹ 13d and bond v. 6.)

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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > utility service workers > [noun] > electrician > involved in specific task

wireman?1881

bonder1903

1903 Westm. Gaz. 20 Jan. 9/2 The bonders being told off to attend to the copper bonds which make the electrical connexion between each of the three rails.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2018).

bondern.²

/ˈbɒndə/

Etymology: A wrong formation < Norwegian bonde, plural bönder.

A Norwegian peasant farmer or petty freeholder.

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the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > rustic or peasant

tillman940

churla1000

ploughman1223

bondmanc1250

bondc1275

ploughswain1296

countrymanc1300

boundec1320

Hobc1325

charla1400

landmana1400

Jack (John) Upland1402

carlc1405

bowerc1430

peasanta1450

rurala1475

agrest1480

bergier1480

carlleina1500

rustical?1532

ploughboy1544

boor1548

rusticc1550

kern1556

tillsman1561

clown1563

Jocka1568

Jock upalanda1568

John Uponlanda1568

russet coat1568

rustican1570

hind?1577

swain1579

Corydon1581

mountain man1587

Phillis1589

sylvan1589

russeting1597

Joan1598

stubble boy1598

paysan1609

carlota1616

swainling1615

raiyat1625

contadino1630

under-swaina1644

high shoe1647

boorinn1649

Bonhomme1660

high-shoon-man1664

countrywoman1679

villan1685

russet gown1694

ruralist1739

paysanne1748

bauer1799

bonderman1804

bodach1830

contadina1835

agrestian1837

peasantess1841

country jake1845

rufus1846

bonder1848

hayseed1851

bucolic1862

agricole1882

country jay1888

child (son, etc.) of the soil1891

hillbilly1900

palouser1903

kisan1935

woop woop1936

swede-basher1943

1848 Fraser's Mag. 38 182 On the white-scoured deal floors of the bonder's house.

1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits iv. 63 The Heimskringla..is the Iliad and Odyssey of English history...The actors are bonders or landholders, every one of whom is named.

1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 81 Knight, or fair lord..If thou mayst share a bonder's feast, Sit by me.

Derivatives

bonderman n.

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