noun. One of a class of serfs in ancient Sparta, neither a slave nor a free citizen.

noun. A person in servitude; a serf.

noun. One of a class of serfs among the ancient. Spartans who were owned by the state, were bound to the soil under allotment to landholders, and fulfilled all servile functions.

noun. Hence A serf or slave, in general; a servile person; one subject, to the orders and caprices of another.

noun. A slave in ancient Sparta; a Spartan serf; hence, a slave or serf.

noun. An individual of the ancient Spartan class of serfs.

noun. A serf; a slave.

noun. (Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord

"The Palestinian American writer Rashid Khalidi uses the term "helot" (a term from the Greek of Ancient Greece to designate an indeterminate status between that of a slave and that of a citizen) to designate the position of Palestinian civilians who have neither civil rights nor any political opportunity to influence the behaviour of the state that dominates and controls their lives in endlessly demeaning and demoralising ways."

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cotter  cottier  

pellet  pelot  zealot  

appanage  bondsman  cow-house  farm-labourer  hith  

apple-polisher  ass-licker  backscratcher  backslapper  bondmaid