Middle English

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Etymology

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From en- +‎ halsen.

Verb

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enhalsen (simple past enhalsed)[1][2]

  1. to embrace

References

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  1. ^ enhalsen, v..”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  2. ^ James Orchard Halliwell (1846) “ENHALSEN”, in A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century. [...] In Two Volumes, volumes I (A–I), London: John Russell Smith, [], →OCLC, page 335, column 1.