What does "thrall" mean?
Thrall: Slavery; bondage; servitude; thraldom. Tennyson. He still in thrall Of all-subdoing sleep. Chapman.
Additional senses
- 2.A shelf; a stand for barrels, etc. [Prov. Eng.]
- 3.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.
- 4.To enslave. [Obs. or Poetic] Spenser.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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