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hustlements

hustlements is the plural of hustlement.

Meaning of hustlement

Noun (1)

hustlement (countable and uncountable, plural hustlements)

  1. (UK, US, Virginia, Yorkshire, obsolete) Miscellaneous household items; odds and ends.
    • Theye haue allso abundaunce of bed coueryngs in their houses, and of all other wollen stuffe. They haue greate store of all hustlements and implements of houshold.1567, John Fortescue, chapter 36, in Robert Mulcaster, transl., A Learned Commendation of the Politique Lawes of Englande, London: Richard Tottel
  2. (UK, Yorkshire, obsolete) A mixed gathering of persons, or things.

Noun (2)

hustlement (uncountable)

  1. (Caribbean) The act of hustling.
    • […] in the hustlement of getting off the train nobody remember Henry and a guard had was to wake him up.1956, Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners, Toronto: TSAR, published 1991, page 16
    Synonyms:
    hustle, jostle, rush

Questions about hustlements

What is hustlements the plural of?
Hustlements is the plural of hustlement.

Words near hustlements in the dictionary

  1. hustled
  2. hustled up
  3. hustlee
  4. hustlees
  5. hustlement
  6. hustlements
  7. hustler
  8. hustlers
  9. hustles
  10. hustles up
  11. hustlin'

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