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n. (context archaic English) A stone slab or shelf used to keep food cool in a pantry or larder in the days before refrigeration was domestically available.
Usage examples of "thrawl".
Holland, who had previously shared the Thrawl Street room with Polly, had come out to watch a large fire, a common form of entertainment for those too poor to afford any other.
In my infancy I was made a prisoner by an usurping uncle, escaping from his thrawl by aid of the most noble Earl of Lincoln.
They moved off down Thrawl Street, past the doss houses where this drab might flop later, if she could obtain a few coppers from this neat-dressed stranger with the dark eyes.
For a while she and another prostitute named Nelly Holland shared a bed in a doss-house in the maze of decaying buildings on Thrawl Street, which ran from east to west for several blocks between Commercial Street and Brick Lane in Whitechapel.
She’d spent most of the last month in another doss-house one block over on Thrawl Street, in a room she shared with four other women.