hustlement

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English ostelment, borrowed from Old French ostillement, ultimately from Vulgar Latin *usitilium, from neuter plural *usitilia, from Latin utensilia (“utensils”).

Alternative forms

• huslement (obsolete)

Noun

hustlement (countable and uncountable, plural hustlements)

1. (UK, Yorkshire, US, Virginia, law, obsolete) Miscellaneous household items; odds and ends.
   • 1567, John Fortescue, chapter 36, in Robert Mulcaster, transl., A Learned Commendation of the Politique Lawes of Englande‎^[3], London: Richard Tottel:

     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.

   • 1664, Henry Power, Experimental Philosophy‎^[4], London: John Martin and James Allestry, Preface:

     the minute Bodies and smallest sort of Creatures about us, which have been by them [the ancients] but sleightly and perfunctorily described, as being the disregarded pieces and huslement of the Creation

2. (UK, Yorkshire, obsolete) A mixed gathering of persons, or things.

Etymology 2

From hustle +‎ -ment.

Noun

hustlement (uncountable)

1. (Caribbean) The act of hustling.

   Synonyms: hustle, jostle, rush

   • 1956, Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners‎^[5], Toronto: TSAR, published 1991, page 16:

     […] in the hustlement of getting off the train nobody remember Henry and a guard had was to wake him up.

   • 1966, Errol Hill, Strictly Matrimony, Scene 1, in Woodie King and Ron Milner (eds.), Black Drama Anthology, New York: Columbia University Press, 1972, p. 555,^[6]

     I like Sunday breakfast. No hustlement. And I like how you does prepare my meal good.