0 especially in the past, warmed beer or wine with spices added that is drunk at Christmas time, usually from a large bowl:
1 in a ceremony around Christmas in the past, to pour wassail on the trees in an orchard (= an area of land where fruit trees are grown) in order to encourage the trees to produce a good crop the next year:
Sometimes, wassail was a whipped dark beer flavored with roasted crab apples.
Hot wassail will be available for those waiting to enter the Annapolis mansion as well as live music from various high school groups.
Some traditions were revived (such as carols, yule logs, wassail bowls and mummers' plays).
Apple trees were sprinkled with wassail to ensure a good crop.
Oh apple tree, we'll wassail thee in hope that thou will bear.
I beg you to wassail responsibly, and don't let your soprano pass out in a snow drift.
We shall be wassailing this Sunday.
