[f. BUSTLE v.1 + -ING1.] The action of the verb BUSTLE.
1589. R. Harvey, Pl. Perc., 7. Let the yoouth … not continew such bustling, backbiting, with facing and defacing one another.
1625. K. Long, trans. Barclay’s Argenis (1636), 681. The shore resounded at … the bustling of the Cables.
1628. Earle, Microcosm. (Arb.), 88. An eager bustling, that rather keepes adoe, than do’s any thing.
1651. Hobbes, Leviath., II. xviii. 91. The most sudden, and rough busling in of a new Truth, that can be, does never break the Peace, but only sometimes awake the War.
1662. Fuller, Worthies, III. 109. In his time was much busling in the University, about an Apocrypha Book.
1675. Burnet, Royal Martyr, &c. 26. This doth so expresly discharge all busling and fighting on the pretence of Religion.
1843. Carlyle, Past & Pr. (1858), 167. His life is but a bustling and a justling.
1865. Kingsley, Herew., xv. (1877), 186. There was bustling to and fro of her and her maids.
