English
hanse
see also: Hanse
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /hæns/, /hænzə/
Noun

hanse (plural hanses)

  1. (historical) Alternative form of Hanse, a merchant guild or a former commercial league of German cities.
    • , An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, p. 252:
      The town does not seem to have had a hanse, nor have there been discovered any records showing the existence of medieval trade guilds; […]
    • , Institutions and European Trade, p. 95:
      In this, they resembled the alien merchant guilds and hanses of the medieval period.
  2. (historical) The guildhall of a Hanse.
  3. (historical) A fee payable to the Hanse, particularly its entrance fee and the impost levied on non-members trading in its area.
Synonyms
  • (merchant guild) See guild
  • (Hanseatic League) See Hanseatic League
  • (headquarters of a Hanse in a city) guildhall, hanse-house
  • (fee paid to enter the Hanse) hansing, hansing-silver
  • (any fee paid to the Hanse) hanse-penny, hanse-gild
Noun

hanse (plural hanses)

  1. (architecture) That part of an elliptical or many-centred arch which has the shorter radius and immediately adjoins the impost.
    • 1736, Richard Neve, Neve's The city and country purchaser and builder's dictionary
      Now Workmen call each End of these Arches the Hanse, which Hanses are always the Arches of smaller Circles than the Scheme, which is the middle Part of these Arches, and consists of a Part of a larger Circle […]
Hanse
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /hæns/, /hænzə/
Noun

hanse (plural hanses)

  1. (historical) A merchant guild, particularly the Fellowship of London Merchants (the "Old Hanse") given a monopoly on London's foreign trade by the Normans or its successor, the Company of Merchant Adventurers (the "New Hanse"), incorporated in 1497 and chartered under Henry VII and Elizabeth I.
  2. (historical) The rights and privileges of such guilds, particularly their trade monopolies.
  3. (historical) A commercial association of Scottish free burghs in the Middle Ages.
  4. (historical) The Hanseatic League: a commercial association of German towns in the Middle Ages.
  5. (historical) Alternative form of hanse, the fees payable to a Hanse or its guildhall.
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