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Definition of Handfast

Handfast
Handfast Hand"fast`, n. 1. Hold; grasp; custody; power of confining or keeping. [Obs.] --Shak. 2. Contract; specifically, espousal. [Obs.]
Handfast
Handfast Hand"fast`, a. Fast by contract; betrothed by joining hands. [Obs.] --Bale.
Handfast
Handfast Hand"fast`, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Handfasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Handfasting.] To pledge; to bind; to betroth by joining hands, in order to cohabitation, before the celebration of marriage. [Obs.]
Handfast
Handfast Hand"fast`, n. [G. handfest; hand hand + fest strong. See Fast.] Strong; steadfast.[R.] --Carlyle.

Meaning of Handfast from wikipedia

- Handfasting is a traditional practice that, depending on the term's usage, may define an unofficiated wedding (in which a couple marries without an officiant...
- are three chalk formations, including a stack and a stump, located at Handfast Point, on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, southern England. They mark the...
- Theatre, 24 September 2013 HandfastTalkFest in the Borders Handfast – Nuts**** Theatre HandfastSummerhall Review: Handfast by Nuts**** Theatre – David...
- ****ist in storytelling. Aylett is also the coauthor of the poetry pamphlet Handfast: Poetry Duets with Beth McDonough (Mothers Milk, 2016). It has a challenge-response...
- which handfasting created could only be dissolved by death. English legal authorities held that, even if not followed by intercourse, handfasting was as...
- one. Wiccan marriages are commonly known as handfastings and are a celebration held by Wiccans. Handfasting was originally a medieval ritual and has been...
- socially and financially, would have been considered a catch. Furthermore, a "handfast" and pregnancy were frequent precursors to legal marriage at the time....
- Durlston Head (limestone) to Handfast Point (chalk), with Peveril Point (limestone) dividing Durlston Bay from Swanage Bay...
- song by the Beastie Boys A Year and a Day, a 2005 film A period used in handfastingsthough more from the works of Sir Walter Scott than history The time...
- from the prevailing southwesterly winds and storms by Ballard Down and Handfast Point, the chalk headland that separates Studland from Swanage Bay to the...