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- verb Present participle of
hansel .
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Examples
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I had set my heart on your hanselling the clean house yourself, and that there would have been
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_ I long to be hanselling his hide, before we bring him to my master.
The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 07 John Dryden 1665
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A Scottish custom is ‘hanselling’ the baby, it’s considered good luck to put money in the baby’s pram when you first meet.
You can take the girl out of the anthropology major . . . « A Bird’s Nest 2008
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