INDENTURE

I. noun Etymology: Middle English endenture, from Anglo-French, from endenter Date: 14th century 1. a. a document or a section of a document that is indented, a formal or official document usually executed in two or more copies, a contract binding one person to work for another for a given period of time, a formal certificate (as an inventory or voucher) prepared for purposes of control, a document stating the terms under which a security (as a bond) is issued, indentation 1, dent , II. transitive verb (~d; indenturing) Date: 1676 to bind (as an apprentice) by or as if by ~s