(Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord.
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Examples for "serf"
Examples for "serf"
1The chief causes of the rise of the serf were the following:
2But the same could be said of every serf in the kingdom.
3In 1220, scarcely a serf was to be found in all Flanders.
4Apparently a lot harder than a feudal serf of the Ancien Regime.
5He paused in mid stride, eying the escaped serf up and down.
1A ditch-full of witches could not bring such tokens to a villein.
2And if he be a villein, he shall lose his right hand.
3The villein did too, his beefy hands frozen on the wooden handles.
4There will no longer be servants or masters, or villein or lord.
5The master of a household was responsible for every villein in his household.
1Yet their force, including the Tegeans and helots, was fifty-three thousand men.
2Why, just a narrow, jealous race-hatred which makes helots of British men.
3We must not imagine that all the helots had joined in the revolt.
4These strikers were helots, unorganized scum; the regular unions-bycomparison respectable-heldaloof from them.
5The humbled Mexicans sink into the condition of wandering helots.
6Under Pausanias we have seen before that the helots were already ripe for revolt.
7Slaves are never without traitors; and the ephors learned the premeditated revolution from helots themselves.
8He was a helot in the great hunt of helots that the masters were making.
9I think Russia agreed to it because they're having a revolt of the Slavic helots.
10The "deterring" example of the helots had therefore very little effect.
11Forty million helots awaited their liberator the rebel leader.
12In Greece and Rome the righting was done by freemen, the labour by helots and bondsmen.
13Have they forgotten that the held helots?
14The Spartans were able to devote themselves to martial pursuits because they possessed a large number of serfs, called helots.
15Their whole position, if it could not be compared with that of slaves, could be compared with that of helots.
16Are they, in their turn, to become helots, after having vainly striven so long to make helots of the others?