A dialectal or archaic term for hazel, a shrub or small tree with edible nuts and flexible branches.
A variant or dialectal form of 'hazel,' possibly influenced by Old English or Germanic roots, with the -el diminutive or adjectival ending.
Hassel is basically hazel's forgotten cousin in the English dialect family—regional languages are full of these variant forms that most speakers have never heard. Studying them shows how English wasn't standardized until printed books made one spelling seem 'correct.'
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