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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
wassail .
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Examples
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In the cider producing areas of Britain, the apple orchards were wassailed.
Archive 2008-12-01 Joanna Waugh 2008
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In the cider producing areas of Britain, the apple orchards were wassailed.
Christmas Feast Joanna Waugh 2008
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We wassailed deep into that night and out the other side, and we liked our Otto more than ever.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 9, 1917 Various
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'Bloweth seed and groweth mead' -- assuredly the sun shone then as now, people wassailed or wailed -- oh, 'twas pretty much the same in all ages.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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In this very place, perhaps upon this very spot, he feasted and wassailed with his warriors, and drained his horn to the future glories of his name.
Greifenstein 1881
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Get a warm drink and some warmer slippers, gather the family around and get ready to have your ass wassailed clean off.
Joystiq 2009
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Get a warm drink and some warmer slippers, gather the family around and get ready to have your ass wassailed clean off. ...
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In parts of Medieval Britain, a different sort of wassailing emerged: farmers wassailed their crops and animals to encourage fertility.
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Get a warm drink and some warmer slippers, gather the family around and get ready to have your ass wassailed clean off.
Joystiq 2009
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Oh 1 sir, how supremely valuable ought our happy institutions to be esteemed I What ardent zeal should animate our efforts to preserve them unimpaired — to cherish end cultivate their vital principles in their original purity and perfection — corruption, wassailed by violence I
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