wassailer

noun

1. a salutation formerly given in drinking the health of a person, as at a festivity
2. the spiced ale or other liquor with which such healths were drunk
3. a celebration with much drinking, esp. at Christmastime; carousal

Origin: ME, earlier wæs hæil < ON ves heill, lit., be hale, be hearty (replacing OE wes hal, lit., be whole)

intransitive verb

1. to drink wassails
2. Brit. to go caroling from house to house at Christmastime

transitive verb