Usually means: Given as a token of luck.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. handseled: Merriam-Webster
  2. handseled: Collins English Dictionary
  3. handseled: Wiktionary
  4. Handseled, handseled: Dictionary.com
  5. Handseled: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. Handseled: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. handseled: FreeDictionary.org
  8. handseled: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. handseled: Legal dictionary

(Note: See handsel as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (handsel)

noun:  (obsolete) A lucky omen.
noun:  A gift given at New Year, or at the start of some enterprise or new situation, meant to ensure good luck.
noun:  (archaic) Price, payment; especially the first installment of a series.
verb:  (transitive) To give a handsel to.
verb:  (transitive) To inaugurate by means of some ceremony; to break in.
verb:  (transitive) To use or do for the first time, especially so as to make fortunate or unfortunate; to try experimentally.
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