Bondsman

['bɒn(d)zmən]

(noun.) someone who signs a bond as surety for someone else.

Checker: Nona--From WordNet

(n.) A slave; a villain; a serf; a bondman.

(n.) A surety; one who is bound, or who gives security, for another.

Edited by Julius

SYN:Slave, serf, prisoner, captive, vassal

ANT:Freeman, yeoman, gentleman, lord, master

Editor: Stacy

n. A fool who having property of his own undertakes to become responsible for that entrusted to another to a third.

Typist: Maxine

And who dared to lame an animal which belonged to my bondsman? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
I am richer, said Gurth, putting them into his pouch, than ever was swineherd or bondsman. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
They were a poor, overwrought band of bondsmen. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

Edited by Greg