1. the practice of going from house to house at Christmas singing carols
Usage: traditional
2. a Christmas celebration involving drinking and singing
Usage: traditional

1. going from house to house singing Christmas carols
Usage: traditional
2. celebrating Christmas with drinking and singing
Usage: traditional

Examples

• The village children went wassailing on Christmas Eve.
• Wassailing was a beloved tradition in medieval England.
• They spent the evening wassailing through the neighborhood.
• The wassailing party sang traditional carols at each door.
• Local families joined in the wassailing festivities.
• The wassailing tradition includes drinking from a communal bowl.
• We heard the wassailing group approaching our house.