1. handsel - Noun
2. handsel - Verb
A sale, gift, or delivery into the hand of another; especially, a sale, gift, delivery, or using which is the first of a series, and regarded as on omen for the rest; a first installment; an earnest; as the first money received for the sale of goods in the morning, the first money taken at a shop newly opened, the first present sent to a young woman on her wedding day, etc.
Price; payment.
To give a handsel to.
To use or do for the first time, esp. so as to make fortunate or unfortunate; to try experimentally.
Source: Webster's dictionaryJock, who also runs small book publisher Handsel Press, will be reading excerpts from this new booklet of ‘prophetic poems’ on current issues at the 5-7pm event. Source: Internet
Handsel Day main Historically, presents were given in Scotland on the first Monday of the New Year. Source: Internet