THRALL

n. a. v.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

A slave; a bondman. Chaucer. Gurth, the born thrall of Cedric. Sir W. Scott.

2.
n.

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

3.
n.

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

4.
a.

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.

5.
v.

To enslave. [Obs. or Poetic] Spenser.

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