Meaning

• A contract which binds a person to work for another, under specified conditions, for a specified time (often as an apprentice).

• A document, written as duplicates separated by indentations, specifying such a contract.

• An indentation.

Meaning

• To bind a person under such a contract.

• To indent; to make hollows, notches, or wrinkles in; to furrow.

  "Though age may creep on, and indenture the brow."