[f. JOSTLE v.] An act or bout of jostling.
† 1. A just or joust; a struggle, tussle. Obs.
1607. Middleton, Phœnix, V. i. I i b. There was a villanous Rauen seene last night, Ouer the presence chamber in hard Iustle With a yong Eglet.
1609. Heywood, Brit. Troy, XIV. xxiii. 363. His armour … besprinkt with gore … he is wel-nye lame With often iustles.
2. A shock or encounter, a collision; a push or thrust that shakes; the action of a pushing or elbowing crowd. lit. and fig.
1611. Cotgr., Gorrette,… a iustle, iurre; thumpe, or thwacke.
a. 1625. Fletcher, Nice Valour, III. ii. For what a lamentable folly ’tis, If we observe ’t, for every little justle … we must fight forsooth.
1641. W. Mountagu, in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.), I. 288. He is fast riveted on that side, if the Commons give him not a jostle.
1710. Tatler, No. 250, ¶ 10. All such as have been aggrieved by any ambiguous Expression, accidental Justle, or unkind Repartee.
1869. Mrs. Whitney, Hitherto, ix. 117. This little sportive justle and antagonism.
1881. Nation (N.Y.), XXXII. 428. In the jostle of South African nationalities and civilizations.
Jostle, mod. dial. f. JUSSEL, a dish.
