noun
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A male slave.
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A male indentured servant.
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Someone who signs a bond that states that they have taken responsibility for someone else's obligations.
Examples of bondsman in a Sentence
Successful at catching the criminal, Chapman went into business as a bondsman.
It's a good idea to note the bondsman as a clue of family relationships.
Like the bondsman on the license, the witnesses may be relatives of the couple.
Dog the Bounty Hunter - A show about Dog, a bail bondsman and his family business of catching the bad guys.
Equally scattered through the whole country, and almost everywhere recognizable, is the underlying Persian population (Tajik), which is sometimes represented by a locally dominant tribe, but more frequently by the agricultural slave and bondsman of the general community.
In October 1871 Gould was the chief bondsman of Tweed when the latter was held in $1,000,000 bail.
He returned to Colorado following his mother's death and helped his sister to start her own bondsman company, and then he returned to Hawaii to expand his business onto various islands.
The bondsman on a wedding bond was often a relative of the groom and sometimes the bride.