justle

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English

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Etymology

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See jostle.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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justle (third-person singular simple present justles, present participle justling, simple past and past participle justled)

  1. To jostle.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, [] (King James Version), London: [] Robert Barker, [], →OCLC, Nahum 2:4:
      The chariots shall rage in the streets; they shall justle one against another in the broad ways []
    • 1713, Joseph Addison, The Guardian, No. 106, 13 July, 1713, in The Guardian, edited by Alexander Chalmers, London: J. Johnson et al., 1806, Volume 2, p. 134,[1]
      [] we justled one another out, and disputed the post for a great while.
    • 1776, Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations[2], page 759:
      Where the competition is free, the rivalship of competitors, who are all endeavouring to justle one another out of employment, obliges every man to endeavour to execute his work with a certain degree of exactness.
    • 1939, Alfred Edward Housman, Additional Poems, section IX:
      When the bells justle in the tower
      The hollow night amid,
      Then on my tongue the taste is sour
      Of all I ever did.

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