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Definition of bondager in English: bondagernoun ˈbɒndɪdʒə historical 1A person who performed services as a condition of feudal tenure. Example sentencesExamples - Nacy Thompson is a bondager, a farm laborer forced to live in virtual slavery, her life dictated by the cruel and barbaric whims of her masters.
- These bondagers were allowed to grow vegetables and keep a cow to provide food for their children, yet life was difficult.
- The life of a bondager was no rural idyll, but one of long hours and hard work born with patient dignity.
- 1.1 (in southern Scotland and north-eastern England) a female outworker supplied to a proprietor by a tenant.
Example sentencesExamples - This photo shows a group of bondagers at Hilltown Farm, Newton, Midlothian.
- Based on interviews with four women who worked in agriculture in Midlothain during the early twentieth century, this volume reveals the hard work of the bondager.
- The use of such female bondagers as agricultural labourers was especially prevalent in south east Scotland and extended into north Northumberland.
- Deals where struck whereby men provided a female worker, or bondager, to labor on demand for the employer in exchange for such things as the cottage rent.
- A bondager was a female worker provided by an agricultural worker as a condition of his employment.
- The bondagers were women hired at the annual hiring fairs by farm hands who were required to bring female workers with them when they themselves were hired.
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