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Definition of handfasting in English English dictionary
- The ceremony in which people handfast
- Present participle of handfast
- handfast
- To pledge; to bind
- handfast
- A contract, agreement, covenant ; specifically betrothal, espousal
- handfast
- Strong; steadfast
- handfast
- To betroth by joining hands, in order to allow cohabitation before the celebration of marriage; to marry provisionally
- handfast
- A hold, grasp; custody, power of confining or keeping
- handfast
- {n} hold, custody, confinement, prison
- handfast
- To pledge; to bind; to betroth by joining hands, in order to allow cohabitation, before the celebration of marriage; to marry provisionally
- handfast
- To pledge; to bind; to betroth by joining hands, in order to permit cohabitation, before the celebration of marriage
- handfast
- hold, grasp; custody, power of confining or keeping
- handfast
- Fast by contract; betrothed by joining hands
- handfast
- Contract; specifically, espousal
- handfast
- contract, agreement, covenant ; specifically betrothal, espousal
- handfast
- Hold; grasp; custody; power of confining or keeping
- handfast
- {s} stingy, miserly
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