skoal

1. A toast when drinking, roughly equivalent to cheers.

present singular third person skoals · participle present skoaling · participle past skoaled · past skoaled

1. To make such a toast.

   With their aquavit the Scandinavians observe a lovely ritual called skoaling, or "toasting." Skoaling is more formal, however, than toasting is in our country. At a dinner party the host always skoals first.

   1971, Linda Wolfe, McCall's introduction to Scandinavian cooking, page 5