noun
definition
A male slave.
definition
A male indentured servant.
definition
Someone who signs a bond that states that they have taken responsibility for someone else's obligations.
Examples of bondsmen in a Sentence
Hittites were made tributary bondsmen by Solomon, 1 Kings ix.
The bill was supported by two or three Dutch members, who were the object of violent attack by the Bondsmen.
In politics an extreme States'-Rights Democrat, he opposed the coercion of the South, and after the Civil War became senior counsel for Jefferson Davis on his indictment for treason, and was one of his bondsmen; these facts and O'Conor's connexion with the Roman Catholic Church affected unfavourably his political fortunes.
When cable network A&E aired a special on bail bondsmen, they featured Duane "Dog" Chapman.
The Bondsmen were more lavish than their opponents in their promises to the natives and even invited a Kaffir journalist (who declined) to stand for a seat in the Assembly.
There was the same king possessing theoretically almost absolute power, both administrative and legislative; the same nobles who limited his effective power by rebellion, their constant effort to keep the crown elective, and his no less steady, and by the 10th century victorious, effort to make it hereditary; the same distinction between the few free, who are also the rich owners of land, and the many serfs, who are partial bondsmen, or the slaves pure and simple.