Definition of thralls Thralls

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What does thralls mean?

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Noun Plural: thralls
thrall - someone held in bondage
		bond servant someone bound to labor without wages
thrall - the state of being under the control of another person
		bondage, slavery, thralldom, thraldom
		subjection, subjugation forced submission to control by others
		bonded labor a practice in which employers give high-interest loans to workers whose entire families then labor at low wages to pay off the debt; the practice is illegal in the United States
		servitude state of subjection to an owner or master or forced labor imposed as punishment; "penal servitude"

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thrall (n.)
A slave; a bondman.
thrall (n.)
Slavery; bondage; servitude; thraldom.
thrall (n.)
A shelf; a stand for barrels, etc.
thrall (a.)
Of or pertaining to a thrall; in the condition of a thrall; bond; enslaved.
thrall (v. t.)
To enslave.

thrall
thrawl, n. a slave, serf: slavery, servitude: a shelf for barrels.—adj. (arch.) subject.—v.t. to enslave.—ns. Thral′dom, Thrall′dom, the condition of a thrall or slave: slavery: bondage.—adj. Thrall′-like (Milt.), resembling a thrall or slave: resembling slavery: slavish. [Old Northumbrian ðrǽl—Ice. þræll, a slave; cf. Old High Ger. drigil, a slave, one who runs errands. From root of A.S. þrægian, to run.]