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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of justle.

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Examples

  • Then we had hasletts and troycream and date justles, just in case we hadn't had enough sweets to suit us, and the Four Tumbling Brothers of Billingsgate came in and vaulted all over one another for a while.

    In the Garden of Iden 1997

  • I cannot believe your law justles out the gospel; but if it be thus used to undermine Christ in his servants, beware that such judgments passed upon them, do not fetch down God's judgments upon the land; and that for such abuse of law, Christ does not in anger deprive both you and us of its use.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823

  • His gospel does not dictate imprudence; no evangelical precept justles out that of

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823

  • 21 _Marcel coming towards him jostles him. _ 4to 1673 reads 'Marcel coming towards justles him'.p. 253, l. 7 _given him some. _ 4to 1673 omits 'him'.

    The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Aphra Behn 1664

  • [Drawing his Sword, justles Ant. who turns and draws.

    The Rover; or the Banish'd Cavaliers 1677

  • [Drawing his Sword, justles _Ant. _ who turns and draws.

    The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Aphra Behn 1664

  • [Goes forward, sees _Hippolyta_, who justles him in passing by; he stops and looks.

    The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Aphra Behn 1664

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