English

Verb

justle ‎(third-person singular simple present justles, present participle justling, simple past and past participle justled)

1. To jostle.
   • Bible, Nahum ii. 4

     The chariots shall rage in the streets; they shall justle one against another in the broad ways.

   • 1776 — Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, 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.

   • Addison

     We justled one another out, and disputed the post for a great while.

   • 1939, Alfred Edward Housman, Additional Poems, 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.