Definition of Bondagers

1. Noun. (plural of bondager) ¹

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Definition of Bondagers

1. bondager [n] - See also: bondager

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bondagers

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

Literary usage of Bondagers

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

1. Northumberland, and the Border by Walter White (1859)
"... Hinds, and bondagers— Domestic Habits—Shabby Hovels—Improved Cottages—Callaly Castle —Eslington—Hospitable ..."

2. Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland by Wellwood H. Maxwell (1863)
"day-work, as the workers (bondagers) are paid half-yearly wages by the ploughmen who board them, and these again paid the daily wages by the farmer. ..."

3. Journal of the Statistical Society of London by Statistical Society (Great Britain) (1839)
"Let them be called " out-door workers," or anything but bondagers—a name in its ... Most of these female servants, or bondagers, are the daughters of hinds, ..."

4. The Manor and Manorial Records by Nathaniel J. Hone (1906)
"The name, however, and some of the incidents of bondage lingered on in remote parts of the country, as in the case of the " bondagers," which existed within ..."

5. Reports of Special Assistant Poor Law Commissioners on the Employment of by Great Britain Poor Law Commissioners (1843)
"I have eight hinds, and eight bondagers in the winter. In the summer I have to hire ... Women not bondagers earn more, only one of my hinds has to hire a ..."

6. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1858)
"Thus the bondagers existed under another name very generally in the kingdom at the time of the Conquest. ..."

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