Meaning of hustlement | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Miscellaneous household items; odds and ends.
   UK, US, Virginia, Yorkshire, countable, obsolete, uncountable
2. The act of hustling.
   Caribbean, uncountable
3. A mixed gathering of persons, or things.
   UK, Yorkshire, countable, obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“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”

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

“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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