dial. Also 7 throale. [Origin uncertain: ? an application of THRALL sb.1] A stand or frame for barrels, milk-pans, etc.

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1674.  Inv., in New Shaks. Soc. Trans. (1881–3), App. II. 14†. In the Sellars … Throales, hogsheads … and Tubbs.

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a. 1800.  Pegge, Suppl. Grose, Gantril, a stand for a barrel. North. Called also a Thrawl.

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1843.  Jrnl. Roy. Agric. Soc., IV. II. 497. A barrel thrawl, or stillion, of cast-iron, furnished with a … lever apparatus for tilting casks without shaking their contents.

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1859.  Geo. Eliot, A. Bede, vi. The dairy thralls, I might ha’ wrote my name on ’em.

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1884.  Vaughan’s Patent, No. 14432. A thrall or stand and tilter for casks.

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