wassail

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

WASSAIL, noun 1. A liquor made of apples, sugar and ale, formerly much used by English good fellows. 2. A drunken bout. 3. A merry song. [This word in unknown in America.] WASSAIL, verb intransitive To hold a merry drinking meeting.
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