hustlement

plural hustlements · alternative obsolete huslement

1. UKUSVirginiaYorkshirecountableobsoleteuncountablelawMiscellaneous household items; odds and ends.

   Theye haue allso abundaunce of bed coueryngs in their houses, and of all other wollen stuffe. They haue greate store of all hustlements and implements of houshold.

   1567, John Fortescue, chapter 36, in Robert Mulcaster, transl., A Learned Commendation of the Politique Lawes of Englande, London: Richard Tottel

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   the minute Bodies and smallest sort of Creatures about us, which have been by them [the ancients] but sleightly and perfunctorily described, as being the disregarded pieces and huslement of the Creation

   1664, Henry Power, Experimental Philosophy, London: John Martin and James Allestry, Preface

2. UKYorkshirecountableobsoleteuncountableA mixed gathering of persons, or things.

1. CaribbeanuncountableThe act of hustling.

   1966, Errol Hill, Strictly Matrimony, Scene 1, in Woodie King and Ron Milner (eds.), Black Drama Anthology, New York: Columbia University Press, 1972, p. 555, I like Sunday breakfast. No hustlement. And I like how you does prepare my meal good.

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   […] in the hustlement of getting off the train nobody remember Henry and a guard had was to wake him up.

   1956, Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners, Toronto: TSAR, published 1991, page 16

   Synonyms: hustle, jostle, rush