Definition of Bondager

1. n. A field worker, esp. a woman who works in the field.

Definition of Bondager

1. Noun. (Scotland) A field worker, especially a woman. ¹

2. Noun. (BDSM) One who takes part in bondage activities. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bondager

1. a female outworker [n -S]

Medical Definition of Bondager

1. A field worker, especially. A woman who works in the field. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bondager

bond issues
bond length
bond market
bond markets
bond paper
bond premium
bond premiums
bond rating
bond servant
bond trading
bondabilities
bondability
bondable
bondage suit
bondager (current term)
bondagers
bondages
bondar
bonded
bonded debt
bonded labor
bonded labors
bonded labour
bonded labours
bonder
bonderise
bonderize
bonders
bondholder

Literary usage of Bondager

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

1. The Red Scaur: A Novel of Manners by Peter Anderson Graham (1897)
"... CHAPTER X )KY OP A bondager—continued ON a brilliant summer day it would have been difficult for any chance passer-by to imagine that trouble or ..."

2. British Farmer's Magazine (1853)
"These are the bondager, and the miserable condition of too many of the old ... The history of the bondager is this : The absence of villages in a thinly ..."

3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"The " bondager " is either the hind's wife or grown-up daughter, or else, ... At Alnwick, a good " bondager," strong and useful, is held 1n more estimation ..."

4. Journal of the Statistical Society of London by Statistical Society (Great Britain) (1839)
"The income of a hind, who has no children able to work, whose, wife only works at harvest, and who has to hire and maintain a bondager, may be considered as ..."

5. The New Statistical Account of Scotland (1845)
"In some instances they are obliged to keep a worker for field-work, called a bondager (a vexatious appellation, now very properly passing out ..."

6. Northumberland Words by Richard Oliver Heslop, Harry Haldane, Oliver Heslop (1894)
"The " bondager " is either the hind's wife or grown-up daughter, or else, ... At Alnwick, a good " bondager," strong and useful, is held in more estimation ..."

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