A tenant of a manor or estate (cf. town, n. 1b); a villein; = townsman, n. 1. Obsolete.

A tenant of a manor or estate (cf. town, n. 1b); a villein; = town man, n. 1. Obsolete.

A tenant in pure villeinage; a serf, a bondman. (The position to which most of the Old English ceorlas were reduced after the Norman conquest.)

esp. A bondman, a villein; cf. churl, n. Obsolete (after 1500 blending with 1a).

One of the class of serfs in the feudal system; spec. a peasant occupier or cultivator entirely subject to a lord (villein in gross gross, n.4 2e) or…

spec. A serf; a bonded labourer or servant. Obsolete. rare.

A person in a condition of servitude or modified slavery, distinguished from what is conventionally… In the 17–18th centuries used (after French…

transferred (helot) A serf, a bondsman.

A serf; a worker, esp. one who mindlessly obeys authority.