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housels

housels is the third-person singular simple present indicative of housel.

Meaning of housel

Verb

housel (third-person singular simple present housels, present participle (US) houseling or (UK) houselling, simple past and past participle (US) houseled or (UK) houselled)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To administer the Eucharist to.
  2. (rare, transitive) To prepare for a journey.
    • So housel all our hackneys that they may feel Compunction in their feet, and tire at Highgate.1750, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Mr. Theobald (Lewis), The Works of Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher

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Proper noun capitalized: Housels

Housels

  1. (plural) plural of Housel

Questions about housels

What is housels the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Housels is the third-person singular simple present indicative of housel.
What part of speech is housels?
Housels is a proper noun.

Words near housels in the dictionary

  1. houselines
  2. houseling
  3. houselings
  4. houselled
  5. houselling
  6. housels
  7. Housely
  8. housemade
  9. housemaid
  10. housemaid's knee
  11. housemaided

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Adapted from Wiktionary: housels (page history and authors); Housels (page history and authors); housel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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