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bondager

noun
bond·ag·er | \-jə(r)\
plural -s

Definition of bondager 

1 : one that performs bondage service

2 chiefly Scottish : one obligated to perform certain services on a farm specifically : a woman engaged by a tenant farmer or cotter under an agreement with the proprietor to do field work on the farm

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