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Definition of "hanse" [hanse]

  • A medieval merchant guild or trade association. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "hanse" in a sentence
  • "Everywhere the right to buy and sell articles of food seems to have been left free, but every other branch of trade was regulated by the merchant guild or hanse, as it was often called."
  • "The hanse, composed of the entire body of freemen and burgesses, required that all produce, upon importation, should be first offered to it, and it was then inspected by"
  • "Henry III. conferred several new rights and liberties, among which were a gild merchant with a hanse."
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