Definition of "namamahay" [namamahay]

• In the Philippine Islands, formerly, serfs who lived in their own houses under socage tenure, being held to assist their master in agricultural work, as rowing-crews, in building houses, etc. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The usual price of a sanguiguilir slave among the natives is, at most, generally ten taes of good gold, or eighty pesos; if he is namamahay, half of that sum."
• "This price is appraised and regulated for persons according to the quality of their slavery, whether it be saguiguilir or namamahay, half slave or quarter slave."
• "Those who became slaves fell under the category of servitude which was their parent's, either namamahay or sa guiguilir."