The Collaborative International Dictionary
bond-servant \bond-servant\, Bond servant \Bond" serv`ant\ A slave; one who is bound to service without wages.
If thy brother . . . be waxen poor, and be sold unto
thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bond
servant: but as an hired servant.
--Lev. xxv.
39, 40.
Usage examples of "bond-servant".
After that who would notice or care that some bond-servant had vanished?
After all, Laris was a bond-servant and the money she made went into circus coffers.
Laris, the probe confirms that all you did was done as a bond-servant under orders and under threat of death or injury to you or your beast.
It might be that a sluggish bond-servant, or an undutiful child, whom his parents had given over to the civil authority, was to be corrected at the whipping-post.