[f. BOND sb.1]
1. trans. in Building: To bind or connect together (bricks, stones, or different parts of a structure) by making one overlap and hold to another, so as to give solidity to the whole; to hold or bind together by bond-stones, clamps, etc.
1677. Moxon, Mech. Exerc. (1703), 260. Other Work adjoining, that should be bonded or worked up together with them.
1793. Smeaton, Edystone L., § 82. The blocks of stone could be bonded to the rock, and to one another.
1858. Neale, Bernard de M., 27. Thine ageless walls are bonded With amethyst unpriced.
1862. Smiles, Engineers, II. 29. The best mode of bonding the blocks of stone to the rock.
b. To build up (coals, etc.) in a stack.
1865. Times, 30 May, 14/1. He had given instructions to his men that the coals were to be ‘bonded’—i.e., built up by themselves.
2. intr. To hold together so as to give solidity.
1836. Scenes Commerce by Land & S., 288. In building, the bricklayer takes care to lay the bricks in a certain manner, to make them bond as he calls it.
3. trans. To encumber with bonded debt; to mortgage.
1883. F. E. Prendergast, in Harper’s Mag., Nov., 938/1. They [a few conservative investors] said the road was being too expensively built, and was too heavily bonded even for its cost.
4. To put into bond (see BOND sb.1 12).
[See BONDED ppl. a. 2.]
5. To subject to bondage.
1835. Marryat, Olla Podr., xxiv. His wife … will be bonded in the same manner.
