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hustlement Obs. exc. dial.|ˈhʌs(ə)lmənt| Forms: 4 ostel(e)-, 4–5 ostil-, 4–5 hustil-, -yl-, 5 (hostilia-), 6 hostil(e)-, hustel-, ustyl(l)-, hussel-, 7 husle-, 7–9 hustlement, dial. husslement. [a. OF. (h)ostillement, (h)oust-, (h)ust-, later out- (13th c. in Godef.), furniture, f. (h)ostiller, mod.F. outiller, to furnish, equip, fit out with tools, f. OF. (h)ostil, (h)oustil, mod.F. outil tool, and (h)ostille apparatus, utensil, tool. M. Paul Meyer holds the OF. word to belong to h)ostel, L. hospitāle: cf. med.L. hostilia house, dwelling (1265 in Du Cange). Conjectures of derivation from L. ūtilis, ūsus, are nugatory; though the accidental resemblance of later F. outil to ūtilis has probably affected the later F. sense, ‘utensil, tool’.] 1. Household furniture; chiefly pl. articles of furniture, household goods.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. ii. pr. v. 33 (Camb. MS.) It nedeth of ful manye helpynges to kepyn the diuersyte of presyos ostelementus [Addit. MS. ostelmentz, ed. 1560 hostilements]. 1418E. E. Wills (1882) 35 Alle the hustilmentis of Beddyng. 1463Bury Wills (Camden) 25 Pewter vessell, cofferys, and tubbes, wid alle othir ostilmentys generally. 1548Richmond. Wills (Surtees) 61 All the ustylment within the hows. 1599Acc.-Bk. W. Wray in Antiquary XXXII. 244 One stee wth all other husselment. 1877N.W. Linc. Gloss., Husslement, household goods. 2. transf. Lumber; odds and ends, a miscellaneous collection. [? associated with hustle.]
1664Power Exp. Philos. Pref. A iij b, Described as being the disregarded pieces and huslement of the Creation. 1773Inventory in Cheshire Gloss. 418 In Lumber or Hustlements 2s. 6d. 1876Mid-Yorksh. Gloss., Hustlement, a mixed gathering of persons or things. |