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▪ I. jostling, justling, vbl. n.|ˈdʒɒslɪŋ, ˈdʒʌslɪŋ|
[f. jostle v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb jostle; † the shock of the tournament; clashing; collision; knocking or pushing about.
1580[see jostle v. 1]. 1587Golding De Mornay xiv. (1617) 223 What else is violence, but a justling of two bodies together? 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 265 Martiall justlings or torneaments, were much practised. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. iii. xxiv. 220 There is much justling for precedency. 1705Hearne Collect. 5 Oct. (O.H.S.) I. 52 Mr. Dalton..met with some High-Constable, who not giving way, there was some Justleing. 1768Sterne Sent. Journ., Snuff-box, In the jostlings of the world. 1843Carlyle Past & Pr. ii. xvi, His life is but a labour and a journey; a bustling and a justling, till the still Night come.
▪ II. ˈjostling, ˈjustling, ppl. a.
[f. jostle v. + -ing2.]
That jostles: see the vb.
1562T. Phaer æneid viii. C c ij b, A man wold thinke yt mountaines meete In seas, or iustling wods wt wods. 1600J. Lane Tom Tel-troth 124 When iusling Iacks to walls their betters drive. 1716Swift Pethox, As Epicurus shows, The world from justling seeds arose. 1758Home Agis 1, Through justling multitudes. 1851D. Jerrold St. Giles xxvi. 265 To moralise upon the hubbub and the jostling crowd. |