Hanse

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A medieval merchant guild or trade association.
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  • n. A league; a confederacy.
  • n. A society or combination of merchants in mercantile towns, for the protection and facility of trade and transportation.
  • n. A Mediaeval French guild.
  • n. The German Hanseatic league; Hanse.
  • adj. Pertaining to the Hanse or German Hanseatic league.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. That part of an elliptical or many-centered arch which has the shorter radius and immediately adjoins the impost.
  • n. An association; a league or confederacy.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A league; a confederacy; a society or combination of merchants in mercantile towns, for the protection and facility of trade and transportation. In the middle ages French gilds were called hanses.
  • n. Specifically [capitalized] The German Hanseatic league.
  • [capitalized] Pertaining to the Hanse or German Hanseatic league: as, Hanse towns.
  • n. See hance.
    • Word Usage
    "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."
    Cross Reference
    laws of the hanse towns   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    association   
     
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