Hustlement

Quick meaning: Hustlement is a noun meaning (UK, Yorkshire, US, Virginia, law, obsolete) Miscellaneous household items; odds and ends.

Meaning

(UK, Yorkshire, US, Virginia, law, obsolete) Miscellaneous household items; odds and ends.

More Meanings

1. (UK, Yorkshire, obsolete) A mixed gathering of persons, or things.
2. (Caribbean) The act of hustling.

Example Sentences

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

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.

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

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.

Word Forms

• hustlements
• huslement

Synonyms for hustlement

Depending on context, synonyms include hustle, jostle, rush.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include jumble, hobbleshaw, hustling, hobble, dousting, jostlement.

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