Definition of Bondsman

Body-snatcher

BONDSMAN noun

	A fool who, having property of his own, undertakes to become responsible for that entrusted to another to a third. Philippe of Orleans wishing to appoint one of his favorites, a dissolute nobleman, to a high office, asked him what security he would be able to give. 'I need no bondsmen,' he replied, 'for I can give you my word of honor.' 'And pray what may be the value of that?' inquired the amused Regent. 'Monsieur, it is worth its weight in gold.'

		definition from: *The Devil's Dictionary* by Ambrose Bierce, 1911

Bore

Regular definition:

BONDSMAN:
?b?ndzm?n n. (pl. -men) 1 a slave. 2 a person in thrall to another. [var. of bondman (f. archaic bond in serfdom or slavery) as though f. bond's genitive of BOND(1)]

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