Handfast

Handfast - Other Definitions

• (n.) Hold; grasp; custody; power of confining or keeping.
  
  
• (n.) Contract; specifically, espousal.
  
  
• (a.) Fast by contract; betrothed by joining hands.
  
  
• (v. t.) To pledge; to bind; to betroth by joining hands, in order to cohabitation, before the celebration of marriage.
  
  
• (n.) Strong; steadfast.
  
  
• (adv.) In a handfast or publicly pledged manner.