handfasts
Meaning of handfasts
verb, 3rd person present
- engage (someone) to be married.
she was handfasted to my older brother Lewis
they had been handfasted when they were but twelve years old
- an engagement or marriage contract.
the only thing that can undo a handfast is a lack of love
late Old English: from Old Norse handfesta ‘strike a bargain by joining hands’.
Information about handfasts
- The singular form of handfasts is: handfast.
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Hyphenation of handfasts
hand-fasts
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- handfasts is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
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