Obs. or dial. [f. BOND sb.2 + -SHIP.] † a. The condition of a ‘bond’; serfdom, bondage (obs.). b. Suretyship. (dial.)
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 43. Bondschepe, nativitas.
1477. Earl Rivers (Caxton), Dictes, 20. Trust is in maner of a bondeship, and mystrust is a liberte.
1542. Udall, Erasm. Apoph., 59 a. Phryne, who, this other daye, Out of hir bondeship did remoue.
1808. R. Anderson, Cumberld. Ballads (1819), 50. His fadder hed yence heaps ov money, But bonship throws monie fwok wrang.
