justle

present singular third person justles · participle present justling · participle past justled · past justled

1. alternativeAlternative form of jostle.

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

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   The chariots shall rage in the streets; they shall justle one against another in the broad ways […]

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Nahum 2:4

   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.

   1776, Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, page 759

   When the bells justle in the tower The hollow night amid, Then on my tongue the taste is sour Of all I ever did.

   1939, Alfred Edward Housman, Additional Poems, section IX