Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of jostling, hustling, or crowding aside.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Crowding; hustling.
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- noun Crowding; hustling.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Niigata of the Government, with its signs of progress in a western direction, is quite unattractive-looking as compared with the genuine Japanese Niigata, which is the neatest, cleanest, and most comfortable-looking town I have yet seen, and altogether free from the jostlement of a foreign settlement.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004
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Anybody who had seen him projecting himself into Soho while he was yet on Saint Dunstan's side of Temple Bar, bursting in his full-blown way along the pavement, to the jostlement of all weaker people, might have seen how safe and strong he was.
A Tale of Two Cities 1859
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Anybody who had seen him projecting himself into Soho while he was yet on Saint Dunstan's side of Temple Bar, bursting in his full-blown way along the pavement, to the jostlement of all weaker people, might have seen how safe and strong he was.
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1841
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