Thrall (?), n. [OE. thral, ral, Icel. raell, perhaps through AS. ri; akin to Sw. tral, Dan. trael, and probably to AS. raegian to run, Goth. ragjan, Gr. ; cf. OHG. 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.]
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Thrall, 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.
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Thrall, v. t.
To enslave.
[Obs. or Poetic]
Spenser.
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