1. serf - Noun
2. serf - Verb
A servant or slave employed in husbandry, and in some countries attached to the soil and transferred with it, as formerly in Russia.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAbraham says that in most cases, "subject, servant, client, serf, pawn, dependent, or retainer" would be more accurate. Source: Internet
By 1864 80% of szlachta were déclassé, ¼ petty nobles were worse off than the average serf, 48.9% of land in Russian Poland was in peasant hands, nobles still held 46%. Source: Internet
Elizabeth purchased the talented serf from the nobleman for her own choir. Source: Internet
For example, a serf of the Demidov family might be named Demidovsky, which translates roughly as "belonging to Demidov" or "one of Demidov's bunch". Source: Internet
Instead of a serf -based system of labor, workers were increasingly employed as part of a broader and expanding money-based economy. Source: Internet
Kimakunduchi is a recent renaming of "Kihadimu"; the old name means "serf" and so is considered pejorative. Source: Internet