[f. JOSTLE v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb JOSTLE; † the shock of the tournament; clashing; collision; knocking or pushing about.
1580. [see JOSTLE v. 1].
1587. Golding, De Mornay, xiv. (1617), 223. What else is violence, but a justling of two bodies together?
1610. Holland, Camden’s Brit., I. 265. Martiall justlings or torneaments, were much practised.
1642. Fuller, Holy & Prof. St., III. xxiv. 220. There is much justling for precedency.
1705. Hearne, Collect., 5 Oct. (O. H. S.), I. 52. Mr. Dalton … met with some High-Constable, who not giving way, there was some Justleing.
1768. Sterne, Sent. Journ., Snuff-box. In the jostlings of the world.
1843. Carlyle, Past & Pr., II. xvi. His life is but a labour and a journey; a bustling and a justling, till the still Night come.
