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Wassailers

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Those who join a wassail; revellers, drunkards.

“I should be loath


To meet the rudenoss and swilled insolence

Of such late wassailers.”


Milton: Comus (The Lady).

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Warp (To)
Warp and Weft, or Woof
Warrior Queen (The)
Warwick
Warwick Lane (City)
Warwolf
Washed Out (I am thoroughly)
Washing
Washington of Columbia
Wassail
Wassailers
Wastlers
Wat
Wat’s Dyke (Flintshire)
Watch Night
Watch on Board Ship
Watchet
Water
Water
Water
Water-gall