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Definition of Bondswoman

1. Noun. Someone who signs a bond as surety for someone else.

2. Noun. A female bound to serve without wages.

3. Noun. A female slave.

Definition of Bondswoman

1. n. See Bondwoman.

Definition of Bondswoman

1. Noun. The female equivalent of a bondsman. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Bondswoman

1. See Bondwoman. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bondswoman

bondmaiden bondmaidens bondmaids bondman bondmen bonds bondservant bondservants bondslave bondslavery

bondslaves bondsman bondsmen bondstone bondstones bondswoman (current term) bondswomen bonduc bonduc nut bonduc tree

bonducs bondwoman bondwomen bone-ash cup bone-chilling bone-covered bone-crunching bone-dry bone-dry(a)

Literary usage of Bondswoman

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the County and City of Cork by Charles Bernard Gibson (1861)
"... have the fine for a cow's killing a bondsman or bondswoman :— " If it be a bondsman or bondswoman that has been killed by a cow, the cow is forfeited. ..."

2. Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England: From by John Campbell Campbell (1857)
"Yet if Hagar grow insolent, ' cast out the bondswoman and her son;' his Majesty's resolution is, ' that the son of the bondswoman shall never inherit with ..."

3. The British Quarterly Review by Robert Vaughan, Henry Allon (1869)
"... not so easy, in an age when money payments were rare, for the bondswoman to ... the freedom of the bondswoman— perhaps moved by her hard condition under ..."

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