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justle

 

  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Justle  \Jus"tle\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Justled};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Justling}.] 
  To  push  to  drive;  to  force  by  running  against;  to  jostle. 
 
  We  justled  one  another  out  and  disputed  the  post  for  a 
  great  while  --Addison. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Justle  \Jus"tle\,  n. 
  An  encounter  or  shock;  a  jostle. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Justle  \Jus"tle\,  v.  i.  [Freq.  of  joust,  just  v.  i.  See 
  {Joust},  v.  i.,  and  cf  {Jostle}.] 
  To  run  or  strike  against  each  other  to  encounter;  to  clash; 
  to  jostle.  --Shak. 
 
  The  chariots  shall  rage  in  the  streets;  they  shall 
  justle  one  against  another  in  the  broad  ways.  --Nahum 
  ii  4. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Jostle  \Jos"tle\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Jostled};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Jostling}.]  [A  dim.  of  joust,  just  v.  See  {Joust},  and  cf 
  {Justle}.]  [Written  also  {justle}.] 
  To  run  against  and  shake;  to  push  out  of  the  way  to  elbow; 
  to  hustle;  to  disturb  by  crowding;  to  crowd  against. 
  ``Bullies  jostled  him.''  --Macaulay. 
 
  Systems  of  movement,  physical,  intellectual,  and  moral, 
  which  are  perpetually  jostling  each  other  --I.  Taylor.