The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bondslave \Bond"slave`\, n. A person in a state of slavery; one whose person and liberty are subjected to the authority of a master.
Wiktionary
n. One who works as a slave under an indenture; a bondsman or bondswoman.
Usage examples of "bondslave".
The bondslave, John Ruark, quietly considered his master, having already realized that he would have to tread lightly when dealing with him, for the man was as sharp-witted as it had been rumored.
How could she have believed a bondslave, a colonial who had already proven himself no gentleman, would respect her womanhood?
Though known as a bondslave, he could pass as a peer in any circle of nobles and lords.
I am a bondslave, and if my master should choose to sell me away, I would have little choice in the matter.
With a quick jerk, Ruark doffed the hat and held it in both hands before him like a bondslave suddenly confronted by his master.
With a single-minded purpose and a tenderness she had shown no other man, she tended this bondslave whom she had once hated.
She had been anxious to see Sir Billingsham quartered completely across the house from her, and now she took the bondslave into her own wing.
Besides, being a bondslave allowed him a good reason to stay on the island with her.
Someday, Ralston promised himself, he would have the chance to deal with that bondslave in the manner deserving such a one.
And if to be loosed from sin and shame, by means however abrupt, be not liberty of the most exalted, spiritual kind, then, young man, you are a bondslave indeed, to your own ignoble desires.
I did this deliberately, having found out by hard experience that money was the bondslave of lust, and rank the breastplate of inanity.
Now for the first time he realized that during all that past time, when he had been living as a poor and wretched bondslave in Esthonia, he had held this glorious birthright.
Even Reas the bonder himself, who had many a time flogged him for his disobedience and idleness, and who now watched him riding downward to the ships, did not recognize his former bondslave in the handsome and gaily attired young warrior.
You could be a bondslave from Valdemar, and we would be treating you the same as we are now.
When shall the saner softer polities Whereof we dream, have play in each proud land, And patriotism, grown Godlike, scorn to stand Bondslave to realms, but circle earth and seas?