- a variation of handsel.
hansel
Americannoun
noun
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But Osberne said: "Stephen, my friend and fellow, reach out thine hand that I give thee hansel before all of these of what mastership there is in me."
From The Sundering Flood by May Morris
Here, Jenny, come pull out your key An' hansel, wi' zome tidy tea, The zilver pot that we do owe To your prize butter at the show, An' put zome bread upon the bwoard.
From Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by William Barnes
Flannery: But when he heard what we had to tell— Rock: He said he would bring you and glad to do it on his own car, and no need to hansel him.
From Three Wonder Plays by Lady Gregory
And so I went on till noon, without taking hansel, and I said to myself, 'Would Heaven I had never come to Baghdad!'
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 07 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Waiting for us to do the work," said Glencoe bitterly, "and then blithe they'll be to hansel the profits.
From The Yeoman Adventurer by George W. Gough
On him the Church was built, that is, through him: it was he who hanselled the key.
From St. Peter, His Name and His Office As set forth in holy scripture by Thomas W. Allies
The younger men had "hanselled" their good bargain overwell, and were laughing and talking freely, as they walked up the white road from the haven.
From The Divine Adventure Volume IV by Fiona Macleod
Then the place was hanselled with its first regularly prepared dinner, the first meal beneath its roof at which a woman had presided.
From A Hero of Ticonderoga by Rowland E. Robinson
However, we hanselled your cup, as you know she is of a thirsty temperament.”
From The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler by Sir David Brewster
Then he made peace between them and clad them all in sumptuous robes of honour and hanselled them with precious jewels of land and sea.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 04 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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