bondmann.
/ˈbɒndmən/, U.S. /ˈbɑn(d)mən/ archaic.
Cf. bondsman n.
1. = bond n.2 2. Obsolete exc. Historical.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > rustic or peasant
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Jack (John) Upland1402
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Corydon1581
mountain man1587
Phillis1589
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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
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific ranks of common people > [noun] > villein
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c1250 Owl & Night. 1577 Moni chapmon and moni cniht..And swa deþ moni bondeman.
a1300 Havelok 32 Hym louede..Knict, bondeman, and swain.
1503–4 Act 19 Hen. VII xv. §4 Yf eny bondeman purches eny landes..in fee symple.
1809 W. Bawdwen tr. Domesday Bk. 289 The King has there sixteen villanes & two bordars & one bondman having four ploughs.]
2. A man in bondage; a villein; a serf, slave.
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society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > [noun] > slave
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bondservant1535
bondslave1561
bondling1587
slave-boy1607
slave-labourer1607
chattel1649
bondsman1713
livestock1755
esne1819
thirl-man1871
task-labourer1897
a1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 1155 Whar-to serves man þe world þan, And mas hym þe worldes bondman.
1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 13 To be solde as a prysonner or a Bondeman.
1574 J. Baret Aluearie B 841 A prisonner taken in warre, a bondeman, a captiue.
1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 181 That no Christian should be bondman to a Iew.
1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 5 Instead of freeing us..make us bondmen.
1866 W. C. Bryant Death Slavery ii Fields where the bondman's toil No more shall trench the soil.
3. bond-man-blind: old name of blind-man's buff.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > parlour and party games > [noun] > blind-man's-buff, etc.
hoodman-blind1565
hoodwink1574
Hob-man blind1599
blind-man's-buff1600
bob and hit1611
Harry racket1611
blind-bob1783
bond-man-blind1783
jingling match1801
pawn party1831
blind-hob1834
shadow buff1879
Blind Tom1909
1783 Ainsworth's Thes. Linguæ Latinæ (new ed.) v Myinda..The play called bond-man-blind, blind-bob, or blind-man-buff.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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