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• a variation of handsel.

hansel

American  

[han-suhl] / ˈhæn səl /

noun

hanseled, hanseling, hanselled, hanselling

1. a variant of handsel.

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hansel British  

/ ˈhænsəl /

noun

1. a variant spelling of handsel

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Example Sentences

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hansel hanselled

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

Eliza: True enough, Marriage means little more than a new gown To some: but Phœbe’s not a fancicle tauntril, With fingers itching to hansel new-fangled flerds.

From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

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

"An' right glad I am; for he always brings me a good hansel."

From Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir by Mary Catherine Crowley

My lord Dorax, the governor, will have him at any rate:—There's hansel.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Sir Walter Scott

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

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

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

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

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