justle

English

Etymology

See jostle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʒʌsəl/

Verb

justle (third-person singular simple present justl, present participle ing, simple past and past participle justled)

1. To jostle.
   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Nahum 2:4,^[1]

     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,^[2]

     […] we justled one another out, and disputed the post for a great while.

   • 1776 — Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, 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, 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.

Anagrams

• Sutlej