Word Meanings - BORDMAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A bordar; a tenant in bordage.

Related words: (words related to BORDMAN)

• BORDAGE
  The base or servile tenure by which a bordar held his cottage.
• 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.
• TENANT
  One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title
• TENANTLESS
  Having no tenants; unoccupied; as, a tenantless mansion. Shak.
• TENANT SAW
  See TENON
• TENANTRY
  1. The body of tenants; as, the tenantry of a manor or a kingdom. 2. Tenancy. Ridley.
• TENANTABLE
  Fit to be rented; in a condition suitable for a tenant. -- Ten"ant*a*ble*ness, n.
• TER-TENANT
  See TERRE-TENANT
• SUBLIEUTENANT
  An inferior or second lieutenant; in the British service, a commissioned officer of the lowest rank.
• TERRE-TENANT
  One who has the actual possession of land; the occupant.
• UNDERTENANT
  The tenant of a tenant; one who holds lands or tenements of a tenant or lessee.
• LIEUTENANT
  of tenir to hold, L. tenere. See Lieu, and Tenant, and cf. Locum 1. An officer who supplies the place of a superior in his absence; a representative of, or substitute for, another in the performance of any duty. The lawful magistrate, who is the
• LIEUTENANT GENERAL
  . An army officer in rank next below a general and next above a major general. Note: In the United States, before the civil war, this rank had been conferred only on George Washington and on Winfield Scott. In 1864 it was revived by Congress and
• LIEUTENANTRY
  See LIEUTENANCY
• COTENANT
  A tenant in common, or a joint tenant.
• LIEUTENANTSHIP
  See 1
• UNTENANT
  To remove a tenant from. Coleridge.
• APPURTENANT
  Annexed or pertaining to some more important thing; accessory; incident; as, a right of way appurtenant to land or buildings. Blackstone. Common appurtenatn. See under Common, n.
• SUBTENANT
  One who rents a tenement, or land, etc., of one who is also a tenant; an undertenant.