Definition of "handselling" []

• Present participle of handsel. (verb)

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• "When grass-roots dealers love a book, they go right into what they call their "handselling" mode."
• "Clontarf meeting was selected for the _coup d'essai_ of Government; in its new character for "handselling" the new system of rigour, this Clontarf assembly having fallen out just about six weeks from the Royal speech."
• "And for the same reason, when you are handselling the Oxenbury board books point out the one that says, "Wave to Daddy, Wave to Mum," just in case."