Word Meanings - BORDAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The base or servile tenure by which a bordar held his cottage.

Related words: (words related to BORDAGE)

• SERVILELY
  In a servile manner; slavishly.
• SERVILENESS
  Quality of being servile; servility.
• BORDAR
  A villein who rendered menial service for his cottage; a cottier. The cottar, the bordar, and the laborer were bound to aid in the work of the home farm. J. R. Green.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• COTTAGE
  A small house; a cot; a hut. Note: The term was formerly limited to a habitation for the poor, but is now applied to any small tasteful dwelling; and at places of summer resort, to any residence or lodging house of rustic architecture, irrespective
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• SERVILE
  1. Of or pertaining to a servant or slave; befitting a servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence, meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning; as, servile flattery; servile fear; servile obedience. She must bend the servile
• COTTAGED
  Set or covered with cottages. Even humble Harting's cottaged vale. Collins.
• COTTAGELY
  Cottagelike; suitable for a cottage; rustic. Jer. Taylor.
• COTTAGER
  One who lives on the common, without paying any rent, or having land of his own. (more info) 1. One who lives in a cottage.
• TENURE
  The manner of holding lands and tenements of a superior. Note: Tenure is inseparable from the idea of property in land, according to the theory of the English law; and this idea of tenure pervades, to a considerable extent, the law of real property
• NONTENURE
  A plea of a defendant that he did not hold the land, as affirmed.