Category:Thrall

Thrall, n. Etym: [oe. thral,, icel. , perhaps through as. ; akin to Sw. träl, dan. træl, and probably to as. to run, goth. , gr. dregil, Drigil, a servant.]

1. A slave; a bondman. Chaucer. Gurth, the born thrall of cedric. Sir w. Scott.

2. Slavery; bondage; servitude; thraldom. Tennyson. He still in thrall of all-subdoing sleep. Chapman.

3. A shelf; a stand for barrels, etc. [prov. Eng.]

Thrall Thrall, a.

Defn: of or pertaining to a thrall; in the condition of a thrall; Bond; enslaved. [obs.] Spenser. The fiend that would make you thrall and bond. Chaucer.

Thrall Thrall, v. t.

Defn: to enslave. [obs. or poetic] spenser.