Bond-servant

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  bond-servant \bond-servant\, Bond servant \Bond"
  serv`ant\(s[~e]rv`ant).
     A slave; one who is bound to service without wages.
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           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.
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