Definition of indenture
- n. - The act of indenting, or state of being indented.
- n. - A mutual agreement in writing between two or more
parties, whereof each party has usually a counterpart or duplicate;
sometimes in the pl., a short form for indentures of apprenticeship,
the contract by which a youth is bound apprentice to a master.
- v. t. - To indent; to make hollows, notches, or wrinkles in;
to furrow.
- v. t. - To bind by indentures or written contract; as, to
indenture an apprentice.
- v. i. - To run or wind in and out; to be cut or notched; to
indent.