BONDAGE, BONDMAN, BONDSMAN, BOND-WOMAN
NOUNS
1905 ► THRALLAGE bondage; pecuniary difficulty; perplexity → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
NOUNS, PERSON
1300 ► CARL → CARLE a bondman; a villain → obs.
1330 ► MAN’S-BOND a bondman; a slave → obs.
1450 ► NATIVE a person born in bondage
1531 ► NAIF a bondwoman, a female serf
1547 ► NEIF a bondwoman, a female serf
1615 ► MANUMIT a freed bondman → obs.
1823 ► HELOT a bondsman; a serf
1879 ► BANSMAN a bondsman, a servant → Sc.
1945 ► BAIL ‘EM FROM SALEM a bondsman → jive usage (Bk.)
VERBS
1432 ► MANUMIT to release from bondage or servitude; to set free
1523 ► MANUMISE → MANUMISS to release from bondage or servitude; to set free → obs.