Bushwhacker
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- Apr 28, 2007
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In this paragraph:
In that country, peasant girls bound for "service in the city" were invariably given such cloaks as a going-away present. No doubt the girls' talents had been discovered in some village and they bound over to the Wizards' Guild.
I have some difficulties as for the meaning of the first bound and also the second bound over
First I thought the first one was meaning some connotation of destiny or intention: peasant girls who was thinking of going to the city, but bound over seems to have some commination. I'm not entirely sure of my suppositions.
Please, what does really mean the first bound and the second, bound over?
Thank You
In that country, peasant girls bound for "service in the city" were invariably given such cloaks as a going-away present. No doubt the girls' talents had been discovered in some village and they bound over to the Wizards' Guild.
I have some difficulties as for the meaning of the first bound and also the second bound over
First I thought the first one was meaning some connotation of destiny or intention: peasant girls who was thinking of going to the city, but bound over seems to have some commination. I'm not entirely sure of my suppositions.
Please, what does really mean the first bound and the second, bound over?
Thank You