Definitions for wassail

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wassail was·sail

Spelling: [wos-uh l, -eyl, was-, wo-seyl]

IPA: /ˈwɒs əl, -eɪl, ˈwæs-, wɒˈseɪl/

Wassail is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 99 anagrams from letters in wassail (aailssw).

Definitions for wassail

noun

1. 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.
2. a festivity or revel with drinking of healths.
3. liquor for drinking and wishing health to others on festive occasions, especially spiced ale, as on Christmas Eve and Twelfth-night.
4. Archaic. a song sung in wassailing.

verb (used with object)

1. to drink to the health or success of; toast.

verb (used without object)

1. to revel with drinking.

Origin of wassail

1175-1225; Middle English was-hail, equivalent to was be (Old English wæs, variant of wes, imperative of wesan to be; akin to was) + hail hale

Examples for wassail

wassail is equivalent to the phrase, "Your health," of the present day.

The wassail bowl was a triumph, and the candle of Mr. Pickwick was put out.

It was past midnight when I withdrew from the scene of wassail.

"Till we meet beside the wassail board, make you merry," she said then.

To whom it was answered by Hengist, that wassail, what it signifieth.

The rafters of the great living-room shook with the roar of wassail and of song.

The knight dropped his wassail cup and sprang to the assistance of the ladies.

wassail and Drinkhail are both derived from the Anglo-Saxon.

Now, as then, the company was defeating tedium with wassail.

Where is the silver plate—the wassail bowls and our silver-gilt chargers?