justle

English

Etymology

See jostle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒʌsəl/

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Verb

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.

Anagrams

• Sutlej