| 单词 | bondager |
| 释义 | bondager Sc.|ˈbɒndɪdʒə(r)|
[f. bondage n. 1 c + -er.]
One who performs bondage-service; spec. in recent times, in the south of Scotland and Northumberland, a female out-worker, whom the occupier of a cot-house on a farm, and generally also each ‘hind’ or married farm-worker occupying a ‘hind's house’, undertakes, as a condition of his tenancy, to supply from his own family, or else to engage, board, and lodge, to do regular field-labour on the farm.
[Not in Jamieson 1808–25.]1837Howitt Rur. Life ii. iv. (1862) 119 These female bands in the fields.. I heard these women called Bondagers. 1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm II. 386 The first class of ploughmen were each bound to supply a field-worker for the farm during the year..these latter have long been designated by the odious name of bondagers. 1853Johnston Nat. Hist. E. Bord. I. 106 The row of bondagers on the haugh with the light rattle of their hoes. 1855A. Somerville Autobiog. 6 When we lived in Springfield, the house rent was paid by finding one shearer for the harvest..also an outfield worker winter and summer for the farmer..[The latter] called the ‘bondager’ was paid ten-pence per day. 1869Pall Mall G. 3 Aug. 12. |
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