wassail
noun
a salutation wishing health to a person, used in England in early times when presenting a cup of drink or when drinking to the person.
were wassailing
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past progressiveof wassail.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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She now abruptly left the hall, and proceeded to the place in the court occupied by those who were wassailing on the coloured water she had brewed for them with her fair hands.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative by Various
