(Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord.
Agricultural labourer bound by the feudal system who was tied to working on a lord's estate.
Синонимы
Examples for "villein "
Examples for "villein "
1 A ditch-full of witches could not bring such tokens to a villein .
2 And if he be a villein , he shall lose his right hand.
3 The villein did too, his beefy hands frozen on the wooden handles.
4 There will no longer be servants or masters, or villein or lord.
5 The master of a household was responsible for every villein in his household.
1 Explain the following terms: oracle; amphictyony; helot ; Hellas; Olympiad; and ephors.
2 This is not the middle ages; I am an Englishman, not a helot .
3 Am I a helot , that you should offer to buy my very soul?
4 He was a helot in the great hunt of helots that the masters were making.
5 The lot of the negro slave, compared with that of the Irish helot , was happiness itself.
1 The chief causes of the rise of the serf were the following:
2 But the same could be said of every serf in the kingdom.
3 In 1220, scarcely a serf was to be found in all Flanders.
4 Apparently a lot harder than a feudal serf of the Ancien Regime.
5 He paused in mid stride, eying the escaped serf up and down.
6 One was the son of a noble, the other of a serf .
7 Upon which the serf raised himself and left the room, smiling throughout.
8 The founder of the great silversmiths' firm of Ovtchinnikoff was a serf .
9 But the oppressed serf was reluctant to adopt such an extreme measure.
10 Flor, the serf - now Florel Derikuna, swordsman at large-wasin a new land.
11 He mourned for the unfortunate Cossacks and his poor serf , Ivan Petrowitsch.
12 He is a candidate, rising from the serf class to our class.
13 But our followers are too servant-like and serf - like to be offensive fighters.
14 The serf was evolving into a free man all over western Europe.
15 And when a serf becomes insolent, we have ways of punishing him.
16 I may not look like it, but I am a modern-day serf .
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