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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

The goodman liked the looks of him, and they struck the bargain betwixt them straightway, and Stephen had hansel of a second dinner, and ate well thereat; and henceforth is he called Stephen the Eater.

From The Sundering Flood by May Morris

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

There is no time to follow the steps of Burns from old Alloway, by the Bonnie Doon in the clay-built hut, where the January wind blew hansel in on Robin—to Mt.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Robert Green Ingersoll

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

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

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

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

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