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Definition of Hanselling
1. hansel [v] - See also: hansel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hanselling
Literary usage of Hanselling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Icelandic prose reader: with notes, grammar, and glossary by Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Frederick York Powell (1879)
"... .hanselling. hand-laugar, f. pi. was/ting hands. ... m. the arm. hand-sal, n.
hanselling. hani, a, m. cock. ..."
2. Examples of Printed Folk-lore Concerning Lincolnshire by Eliza Gutch, Mabel Peacock (1908)
"Hansel, hanselling.—The first use of anything ; or the first purchase made ; or
the first ... So a ' hanselling supper,' given on occupying a new house. ..."
3. Curiosities of Indo-European Tradition and Folk-lore by Walter Keating Kelly (1863)
"This gave the foresters and charcoal burners a welcome opportunity for " hanselling "
strangers who passed that way, that is to say, forcing them to pay a ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1896)
"... handselling or hanselling, ie the transference of a right, bargain, or duty
to another by joining hands: handshaking was with the men of old the sign of ..."
5. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1854)
"A crooked sixpence is usually selected by careful grandmothers, aunts, and uncles,
to bestow as the “ hanselling “ of a new purse. ..."
6. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle by Jane Welsh Carlyle (1883)
"... hanselling the clean house yourself, and that there would have been a few days
in peace to inspect its curiosities and niceties before he came plunging ..."
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