- a variation of handsel.
hansel
Americannoun
noun
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A bare-headed lassie, hoping to be hansel, threw down twopence and asked tape at three yards a halfpenny.
From Amusing Prose Chap Books by Various
"An' right glad I am; for he always brings me a good hansel."
From Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir by Mary Catherine Crowley
Our monarch's hindmost year but ane Was five-and-twenty days begun^2, 'Twas then a blast o' Janwar' win' Blew hansel in on Robin.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
Breakfast had not been concluded, when the Cannie Soogah, who had already got his hansel, as he called his breakfast, in the kitchen, made his appearance at the parlor window, which was immediately thrown up.
From The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton
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
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
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 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
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
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
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