Bondage

bond′āj, n. state of being bound: captivity: slavery.— n. Bond′ager , a female outworker in the Border and North country, whom the hind or married cottar was bound to provide for the farm-work. [O. Fr.; Low L. bondagium , a kind of tenure. Acc. to Skeat, this is from A.S. bond a , a boor, a householder, from Ice. bóndi = búand i , a tiller, a husbandman, búa , to till, cog. with A.S. búan .]