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Noun
/ˈbändˌmən/,
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bondmen, plural;
  1. A serf; a slave

  1. a male bound to serve without wages
  2. a male slave
  3. The Bondman is a later Jacobean era stage play, a tragicomedy written by Philip Massinger, first published in 1624. The play has been called "the finest of the more serious tragicomedies" of Massinger.
  4. The Bondman is a 1929 British adventure film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Norman Kerry, Frances Cuyler and Donald Macardle.
  5. (Bondmen) Serfdom is the socio-economic status of unfree peasants under feudalism, and specifically relates to Manorialism. It was a condition of bondage or modified slavery which developed primarily during the High Middle Ages in Europe. ...
  6. A man who is bound in servitude; a slave or serf
  7. (bondmen) in debt bondage, those who are held in servitude by another, without wages or pay, in order to pay off a debt.
  8. person bound to provide labour, etc, to the lord of the manor, or other master
  9. bonded to a master for the purpose of learning a skill or trade
  10. unpaid servant or a medieval serf. The term may also describe a villager.
  11. Slave, serf, villein.