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.