/thrawl/ , n.
1. a person who is in bondage; slave.
2. a person who is morally or mentally enslaved by some power, influence, or the like: He was the thrall of morbid fantasies.
3. slavery; thralldom.
v.t.
4. Archaic. to put or hold in thralldom; enslave.
adj.
5. Archaic. subjected to bondage; enslaved.
[ bef. 950; ME; OE thrael thraell slave ]