serf

  1. Noun.  A semifree peasant of a low hereditary class, slavishly attached to the land owned by a feudal lord and required to perform labour, enjoying minimal legal or customary rights.
  2. Noun.  A similar agricultural labourer in 18th and 19th century Europe.
  3. Noun.  (''strategy games'') A worker unit.

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