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helot

he luht

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

  • In Greece, a helot trotted down to a river marsh to gather kalamoi, hollow tubular stalks of grass.
  • Both consider the wage-or salary -earner not as a class-conscious helot, but as a middle-class-conscious American having the same aims and aspirations that animate the rest of .

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