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Thrall

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3

Part of speech: noun (n.)

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.]

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To enslave. [Obs. or Poetic] Spenser.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3

Part of speech: adjective (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.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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