1A person who performed services as a condition of feudal tenure.
〈史〉农奴
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Nacy Thompson is a bondager, a farm laborer forced to live in virtual slavery, her life dictated by the cruel and barbaric whims of her masters.
These bondagers were allowed to grow vegetables and keep a cow to provide food for their children, yet life was difficult.
The life of a bondager was no rural idyll, but one of long hours and hard work born with patient dignity.
1.1(in southern Scotland and north-eastern England) a female outworker supplied to a proprietor by a tenant.
（苏格兰南部和英格兰东北部）根据同业主的协议雇佣在农场从事田地劳动的妇女
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This photo shows a group of bondagers at Hilltown Farm, Newton, Midlothian.
Based on interviews with four women who worked in agriculture in Midlothain during the early twentieth century, this volume reveals the hard work of the bondager.
The use of such female bondagers as agricultural labourers was especially prevalent in south east Scotland and extended into north Northumberland.
Deals where struck whereby men provided a female worker, or bondager, to labor on demand for the employer in exchange for such things as the cottage rent.
A bondager was a female worker provided by an agricultural worker as a condition of his employment.
The bondagers were women hired at the annual hiring fairs by farm hands who were required to bring female workers with them when they themselves were hired.