BONDAGES
Noun
bondages
plural of bondage
Anagrams
• dogbanes, dogs-bane, endobags
Source: Wiktionary
BONDAGE
Bond"age, n. Etym: [LL. bondagium. See Bond, a.]
1. The state of being bound; condition of being under restraint;
restraint of personal liberty by compulsion; involuntary servitude;
slavery; captivity.
The King, when he designed you for my guard, Resolved he would not
make my bondage hard. Dryden.
2. Obligation; tie of duty.
He must resolve by no means to be . . . brought under the bondage of
onserving oaths. South.
3. (Old Eng. Law)
Definition: Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest
services for the owner.
Syn.
– Thralldom; bond service; imprisonment.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition