A drinking-song, sung by men who go about at Christmas wassailing (A.
The wassailing of the trees gave place in America to a jovial autumnal gathering known as an Apple cut, an Apple paring, or an Apple bee.
With the neglect in this country of Saints' Days and the Puritanical frowning down of all folk customs connected with them, we lost the delightful wassailing of the Apple trees.
Here we come a wassailing Among the leaves so green, Here we come a wand'ring, So fair to be seen.
Here's to Broad May and his broad horn, God send our master a good crop of corn, A good crop of corn as we all may see; With the wassailing bowl I'll drink to thee.
A good Christmas-pie as e'er we did see; With the wassailingbowl I'll drink to thee.
In this neighbourhood (Chailey) the custom of wassailing the orchards still remains.
The wassailing of the trees may be regarded as either originally an offering to their spirits or--and this seems more probable--as a sacramental act intended to bring fertilizing influences to bear upon them.
The wassailing of the animals is found there also.
In Sussex, the custom of "worsling" or wassailing Apple-trees still exists.
In West Sussex, during Christmas, the farmers' labourers assemble for the purpose of wassailing the Apple-trees.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wassailing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
