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BONDAGER

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 199 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BONDAGER  , a word meaning generally a servant, but specially used in the See also:

south of See also:Scotland and See also:Northumberland as the See also:term for a See also:female outworker whom a married See also:farm-labourer, living in a cottage attached to the farm, undertakes as a See also:condition of his tenancy to See also:supply for See also:field-labour, sometimes also to See also:board and See also:lodge . The origin of the See also:system was a dearth of field-labour .

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