📖 Definitions of "Handsel"
noun
- 1
A lucky omen.
- 2
A gift given at New Year, or at the start of some enterprise or new situation, meant to ensure good luck.
- 3
Price, payment; especially the first installment of a series.
verb
- 1
To give a handsel to.
- 2
To inaugurate by means of some ceremony; to break in.
- 3
To use or do for the first time, especially so as to make fortunate or unfortunate; to try experimentally.
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