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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Bond, n.¹ Also: bonde, bownd, boynd. [ME. bond, bonde, bownde, OE. bonda (bunda), ON. bónde, búande householder, etc.] A peasant or serf; a bondman.The Latin pl. bondi occurs in 1264 in Exch. R. I. 8 and later. 14.. Acts I. 327/2.
Gif the best of ony bonde be fundyn in the forest … that bonde sal gif j kow Ib. 387/2.
Gif thi natiff man or thi bonde haf fylit thi land with guld, for ilk plant of it he sall gif to thé … a mutone c1420 Wynt. iv. 1599.
Threllys, both bownde [v.r. bonde] or carle That oysyd before to bere and harle 1456 Hay I. 51/35.
Thai tuke up for fault of men of armys the labourouris bondis, and maid thame free Ib. 120/25; etc.
Fra a man be tane in bataille, he is bonde and sclave c1420 Ratis R. 52.
Baith landys and lordschipis fra thaim [thai] sell And worthis wrechis bondis threll a1500 Henr. Fab. 1887.
This carle and bond of gentrice spoliate c1475 Wall. xi. 561.
He had fer leuir de … Than for till byd as bond in subiectioun c1500 Five Bestes 136.
A bonde thar was, his name I can nocht tell a1508 Kennedy Pass. Christ 1030.
Into thi band as bond thou had him bund 1533 Boece v. vi. 175 b.
Sum Britan noblis in sobir arrayment as rude pepill feynȝeing thame boyndis … revelit thare dissymulacioun 1535 Stewart 20375.
The Romanes … maid thame all bot bondis for to be Quhair thai wer wont befoir for to leve frie Ib. 20577.
This Victorin … Hes bondis maid of all the nobill blude