handsel 的 2 个定义
- a gift or token for good luck or as an expression of good wishes, as at the beginning of the new year or when entering upon a new situation or enterprise.
- a first installment of payment.
- the initial experience of anything; first encounter with or use of something taken as a token of what will follow; foretaste.
hand·seled, hand·sel·ing or hand·selled, hand·sel·ling.
- to give a handsel to.
- to inaugurate auspiciously.
- to use, try, or experience for the first time.
handsel 近义词
gift
更多handsel例句
- "And here's a handsel to cross his palm," added Harry, passing the piper something invisible.
- He would instantly give him a 'handsel' of harrying to stay his proud stomach.
- But the devil a sou the devils took; far from taking handsel, they were flouted and jeered by the country louts.
- "Mercury hath sent us precious handsel this morning, truly," said he, when his diversion was concluded.
- A bareheaded lassie, hoping to be handsel, threw down twopence, and asked tape at three yards for a halfpenny.