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Meanings of wassailer in English

Someone who enjoys riotous drinking.

        Someone who proposes a toast; someone who drinks to the health of success of someone or some venture.

              Usage of wassailer in English
              1
              A heedless husbandman you must have been, a gambler or wassailer, to have brought yourself to this sorry pass.
              Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 04 (of 15), English
              2
              The opportunity was sweet; and yet those boisterous wassailers, they might spoil all.
              The Young Duke
              3
              Flushed with the joyous insolence of wine, the wassailers roared applause.
              Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 11
              4
              All was silent save for the intermittent clamor of the wassailers in the room beneath.
              The Master of Appleby / A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part w...
              5
              We are our own carolers, we are our own mummers, we are our own wassailers.
              The White Queen
              6
              The wassailers departed, and the Squire went to say a kind word to his humbler guests.
              Put Yourself in His Place
              7
              The mummers come and play before the fire in the great hall, the wassailers come and sing.
              The King’s Curse
              8
              'The end is not so near as all that,' said a third wassailer.
              Lothair
              9
              It became, from 1748 to 1759, the luxurious resort of Intendant Bigot and his wassailers.
              Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present
              Frequent collocations
              Wassailer through the time