[Orig. two words: see BOND a.] A female slave.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (1865), II. 97 (Mätzn.). Leyre wite, amendes for liggynge by a bondwommen.
1526. Tindale, Gal. iv. 30. Put awaye the bonde woman.
1671. Milton, P. R., II. 308. The fugitive bondwoman, with her son, Outcast Nebaioth.
1782. Burke, Reform Ho. Comm., Wks. X. 102. Yorkshire, like the child of the bond-woman, is turned out to the desert.
1872. Yeats, Techn. Hist. Comm., 143. The most exalted lady was no more exempt than the lowliest bondwoman.
