handsels
Meaning of handsels
plural noun
a gift given at the beginning of the year or to mark an acquisition or the start of an enterprise, supposedly to bring good luck.
verb, 3rd person present- give a hansel to.
the practice of hanselling the master still flourished in Scotland
Middle English (denoting luck): apparently related to late Old English handselen ‘giving into a person's hands’, and Old Norse handsal ‘giving of the hand to seal a promise’, from hand + an element related to sell; the notion of ‘luck’, however, is not present in these words.
Information about handsels
- The singular form of handsels is: handsel.
- Languages in which handsels is used:
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Hyphenation of handsels
hand-sels
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- handsels is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Anagrams of handsels
Words that rhyme with handsels
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