- handfestr
- f. striking a bargain by joining hands.
An Icelandic-English dictionary. Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson. 1874.
handfestr
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handfast — /hand fast , fahst /, n. Archaic. a covenant or contract, esp. a betrothal, usually completed by a handclasp. [1150 1200; ME (ptp.), earlier handfest < Scand; cf. ON handfestr, ptp. of handfesta to betroth with a joining of hands, equiv. to hand… … Universalium
