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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Hustled

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Hustling

[D.

hustelen

to shake, fr.

husten

to shake. Cf.

To shake together in confusion; to push, jostle, or crowd rudely; to handle roughly;

as, to

hustle

a person out of a room

Macaulay.

Verb.

To push or crows; to force one’s way; to move hustily and with confusion; a hurry.

Leaving the king, who had

hustled

along the floor with his dress worfully arrayed.

Sir W. Scott.

Verb.

hus'l. To shake together in confusion; to push or crowd.