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handsel

C2 verb

handsel /ˈhænd.səl/ nghĩa là tặng quà mừng (đầu năm, khai trương)

Các nghĩa

  1. tặng quà mừng (đầu năm, khai trương)

    To give a handsel to.

    transitive

    She would leave a gold guinea to hansel the baby.

  2. khai trương, làm lễ khởi đầu

    To inaugurate by means of some ceremony; to break in.

    transitive

  3. dùng lần đầu, thử nghiệm

    To use or do for the first time, especially so as to make fortunate or unfortunate; to try experimentally.

    transitive

    Indeed there is no contrivance of our body, but some good man in Scripture hath hanselled it with prayer.

    The lads, dressed like their papas, seemed uncomfortable in their new clothes (many that day handselled their first pair of boots), […].

    […]the success of the one did not handsel usurpation[…]of the other's.

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