träl — meaning in English

English meaning

• dredge noun A machine or device used to scoop up material from the bottom of a body of water.
• slave noun A person legally owned by another and forced to work without freedom or pay.
• thrall noun A person held as a slave or in servitude, under the total control of another.

Senses

träl is used for these senses in English:

• dredge A dredging machine.
• slave A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition and control.
• thrall (literary, or, puristic, otherwise, archaic) Slave; one under the control of another.

dredge — full definition

1. noun A machine or device used to scoop up material from the bottom of a body of water.
2. verb To clear or deepen a waterway by scooping out mud, sand, or debris.
3. verb To bring up something unpleasant from the past, often followed by "up."

slave — full definition

1. noun A person legally owned by another and forced to work without freedom or pay.
2. noun A person completely controlled by or devoted to something.
3. noun A secondary device controlled by another (master) device.

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