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Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In Mexico. A debtor held by his creditor in a qualified servitude to work out the debt; a serf.

Webster.

In India. A footman; a soldier; an inferior officer; a servant employed in the business of the revenue, police, or judicature.