ˈbondship Obs. or dial.
[f. bond n.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. |