Meanings
- obsoleteuncountableObsolete form of hustlement (“miscellaneous household items; odds and ends”)
The appraisers, as the valuers were normally called, listed every piece of household furniture, room by room, and then perhaps the livestock and crops, the contents of a workshop, and all the bits and pieces that were valued together as 'huslement'.
1993, David Hey, The Oxford Guide to Family History, Oxford, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 1991 more example
The want of which incomparable Artifice made them not onely erre in their font Cœleſtial Hypotheſis, and Cryſtalline wheel-work of the Heavens above us, but alſo in their nearer Obſervations of the minute Bodies and ſmalleſt ſort of Creatures about us, which have been by them but ſleightly and perfunctorily deſcribed, as being the diſregarded pieces and huſlement of the Creation; […]
1664, Henry Power, “The Preface to the Ingenious Reader.”, in Experimental Philosophy, in Three Books […], London: Printed by T. Roycroft, for John Martin, and James Alleſtry […], unnumbered page
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